Riot
['raɪət]
Definition
(noun.) a public act of violence by an unruly mob.
(verb.) take part in a riot; disturb the public peace by engaging in a riot; 'Students were rioting everywhere in 1968'.
Editor: Louise--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) Wanton or unrestrained behavior; uproar; tumult.
(n.) Excessive and exxpensive feasting; wild and loose festivity; revelry.
(n.) The tumultuous disturbance of the public peace by an unlawful assembly of three or more persons in the execution of some private object.
(v. i.) To engage in riot; to act in an unrestrained or wanton manner; to indulge in excess of luxury, feasting, or the like; to revel; to run riot; to go to excess.
(v. i.) To disturb the peace; to raise an uproar or sedition. See Riot, n., 3.
(v. t.) To spend or pass in riot.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Tumult (on a small scale), row, uproar, disturbance, commotion, broil, brawl, outbreak, fray, affray, altercation, squabble, quarrel, strife, MÊLÉE.
v. n. [1]. Revel, carouse, luxuriate.[2]. Be excited, be tumultuous.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Noise, uproar, tumult, fray, outbreak, mutiny, row, revel, disturbance,turbulence
ANT:Peace, pacification, sobriety, quiescence, orderliness
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Definition
n. uproar: tumult: a disturbance of the peace: excessive feasting: luxury.—v.i. to brawl: to raise an uproar: to run to excess in feasting behaviour &c.: to be highly excited: to throw into a tumult: to annoy.—ns. Rī′oter; Rī′oting; Rī′otise (Spens.) riot extravagance.—adj. Rī′otous engaging in riot: seditious: tumultuous: luxurious: wanton.—adv. Rī′otously.—ns. Rī′otousness; Rī′otry.—Riot Act a statute designed to prevent riotous assemblies.—Run riot to act without restraint or control.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of riots, foretells disappointing affairs. To see a friend killed in a riot, you will have bad luck in all undertakings, and the death, or some serious illness, of some person will cause you distress.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
n. A popular entertainment given to the military by innocent bystanders.
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Examples
- First of a' he must go raging like a mad fool, and kick up yon riot. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- Any enjoyment that bordered on riot seemed to approach me to her and her vices, and I eschewed it. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- I had cast off all feeling, subdued all anguish to riot in the excess of my despair. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- If the authority of the king's officers is set at naught, we must have the riot act read. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- But Thornton, having got his own purpose, didn't care to go on wi' the prosecution for the riot. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- Blériot, and that the French papers should talk of nothing else. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- One girl alonequite in the background, persevered in the riot with undiminished energy. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- How often in great strikes have riots been started in order to prevent the public from listening to the workers' demands! Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- The riots died away, the labor leaders turned to other fields, and one by one the clothing factories installed the new machines. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- There were riots twice in the town against the war and bad rioting in Turin. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- The ringleaders of riots, they think, ought to be punished: they would punish them themselves if they could. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- Labor leaders took up the slogan, and led the men and women workers in what were known as the Sewing-machine Riots. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Riots broke out, Whatmore pit-head was in flames. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Riots and excommunications and banishments punctuated these controversies, and finally came official persecutions. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Riches became mine, wealth poured in upon me, and I rioted in pleasures enhanced a thousandfold to me by the consciousness of my well-kept secret. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- The town artisan rioted indeed, but only locally. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- We had public opinion on our side, till he and his sort began rioting and breaking laws. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- There were riots twice in the town against the war and bad rioting in Turin. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- The Government had seized the steamer chartered for Brazil, in order to bring troops from the Yazoo River to New Orleans to stop the rioting. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
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