riot

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/ˈɹaɪ.ət/

noun 5verb 4

Collocations

(noun.)

ADJ

bread, food

When prices doubled overnight, angry crowds took to the streets in what became known as bread riots.

VERB + RIOT

cause, provoke, spark (off), start

The police officer's aggressive behavior provoked a riot in the downtown area.

put down, quell

RIOT + VERB

begin, break out, erupt, occur, start

Violence erupted when the angry crowd gathered outside the stadium after the match.

RIOT + NOUN

police, squad | gear, shield | control

PREP

during/in a/the ~

The store's windows were smashed during the riot last summer.

~ against/over

The angry crowd erupted in a riot over the sudden increase in public transportation fares.

PHRASES

run riot

The children ran riot in the park when the teacher wasn't watching them carefully.

Definitions

noun

A tumultuous disturbance of the public peace by a large group of people, often involving violence or damage to property.

The protests began peacefully but turned into riots after several days.

A wide and unconstrained variety.

In summer this flower garden is a riot of colour.

The human world is contracting not only prospectively but to the backward-probing eye of culture-history. Nevertheless we are as yet far from able to reduce the riot of spoken languages to a small number of “stocks.”

A humorous or entertaining event or person.

Check this out! We have to get this! I can't believe all this stuff! This is a total riot!

Wanton or unrestrained behavior or emotion.

For when his head-ſtrong Riot hath no Curbe,

Excessive and expensive feasting; wild and loose festivity; revelry.

the lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day

verb

To create or take part in a riot; to raise an uproar or sedition.

The nuclear protesters rioted outside the military base.

To act in an unrestrained or wanton manner; to indulge in excess of feasting, luxury, etc.

Now he exact of all, wastes in delight, / Riots in pleasure, and neglects the law.

Think of the insults, wrongs, and contumelies, / Ye bear from your proud lords—that your hard toil / Manures their fertile fields—you plow the earth, / You sow the corn, you reap the ripen'd harvest,— / They riot on the produce!— […]

To cause to riot; to throw into a tumult.

To annoy.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

noun — a wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuit

noun — a joke that seems extremely funny

sidesplitter
howler
thigh-slapper
scream
wow

noun — a state of disorder involving group violence

rioting

verb — engage in boisterous, drunken merrymaking

Antonyms

Idioms & Phrases

read someone the riot act

To scold or berate somebody; to reprimand.

She really read him the riot act about his smoking habit.

run riot

To act in an uncontrolled, unbridled manner.

No wonder, then, that against a background of surging aggressive prosperity, South Wales built up during the last half of the nineteenth century a local railway system of great den

race riot

A riot arising from interracial conflict.

Example Bank

The protests began peacefully but turned into riots after several days.

Wiktionary

In summer this flower garden is a riot of colour.

Wiktionary

The nuclear protesters rioted outside the military base.

Wiktionary

Now he exact of all, wastes in delight, / Riots in pleasure, and neglects the law.

Wiktionary

The riot police arrived on the scene.

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Usage Notes

i Register

In some senses, riot is marked as figuratively, obsolete, colloquial. Watch for register when choosing this word.

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