RIOT • DICCIONARIO INGLES.COM • Definition of Riot

Add this Dictionary
to your website!
See more options...

/rˈaɪət/ Listen

noun

Riot n.

Wanton or unrestrained behavior; uproar; tumult. "His headstrong riot hath no curb."

Excessive and exxpensive feasting; wild and loose festivity; revelry. "Venus loveth riot and dispense." "The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day."

(Law) The tumultuous disturbance of the public peace by an unlawful assembly of three or more persons in the execution of some private object.

To run riot, to act wantonly or without restraint.

verb

Riot v. t. To spend or pass in riot. "(He) had rioted his life out."

Riot v. i. (past & past part. rioted; pres. part. rioting)

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. "Now he exact of all, wastes in delight, Riots in pleasure, and neglects the law." "No pulse that riots, and no blood that glows."

(Law) To disturb the peace; to raise an uproar or sedition. See Riot, n., 3.

See images of 'Riot'

Etymology of 'Riot'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

Share |

"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

More quotes...