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Riot   /rˈaɪət/   Listen
Riot

noun
1.
A public act of violence by an unruly mob.  Synonym: public violence.
2.
A state of disorder involving group violence.  Synonym: rioting.
3.
A joke that seems extremely funny.  Synonyms: belly laugh, howler, scream, sidesplitter, thigh-slapper, wow.
4.
A wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity.  Synonyms: bacchanal, bacchanalia, debauch, debauchery, drunken revelry, orgy, saturnalia.
verb
(past & past part. rioted; pres. part. rioting)
1.
Take part in a riot; disturb the public peace by engaging in a riot.
2.
Engage in boisterous, drunken merrymaking.  Synonyms: carouse, roister.



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"Riot" Quotes from Famous Books



... of heroism, secures the interest of a shipowner, who places him as an apprentice on board one of his ships. In company with two of his fellow-apprentices he is left behind, at Alexandria, in the hands of the revolted Egyptian troops, and is present through the bombardment and the scenes of riot and bloodshed ...
— Slow and Sure - The Story of Paul Hoffman the Young Street-Merchant • Horatio Alger
... The riot began anew. "Madness!" they shouted; "lunar madness! We can do nothing until our King returns with ...
— Chivalry • James Branch Cabell
... the only one that isn't in The movement—I suppose because she's watched With horror and disgust how her fair skin Her pranking parasites have fouled and blotched With blood and grease in every labor riot, When seeing any purse ...
— Shapes of Clay • Ambrose Bierce
... two months later the second and most terrible and portentous attack upon the palace took place— an attack which Napoleon witnessed, as he had witnessed the first, from a convenient lamp-post, and which filled him with disgust and shame; and it was upon that night of riot and bloodshed that he gave utterance to one of his most ...
— Mr. Bonaparte of Corsica • John Kendrick Bangs
... of Bridetown a throng converged, drawn to the grey tower by a tolling bell; and while the sun shone and a riot of many flowers made hedgerows and cottage gardens gay; while the spirit of the hour was inspired by June and a sun at the zenith unclouded, the folk of the hamlet drew their faces to sadness and mothers ...
— The Spinners • Eden Phillpotts


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