riot

[Ri·ot]

A riot is a violent outburst by a crowd. When the principal didn't declare a snow day, even with five inches on the ground already, students rioted, gathering outside and throwing snowballs.

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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.

Noun
a wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity

Noun
a public act of violence by an unruly mob

Noun
a joke that seems extremely funny

Noun
a state of disorder involving group violence

Verb
engage in boisterous, drunken merry-making; "They were out carousing last night"

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Verb
take part in a riot; disturb the public peace by engaging in a riot; "Students were rioting everywhere in 1968"

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.

Riot

Ri"ot , v. i. [imp. & p. p. Rioted; p. pr. & vb. n. Rioting.] [OF. rioter; cf. OD. ravotten.] 1. 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.

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

Riot

Ri"ot, v. t. To spend or pass in riot.

[He] had rioted his life out.

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.

To spend or pass in riot.

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Usage Examples

It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work.

I'd just turned 50, weighed 285, and my doctor had read me the riot act about my health.

I wouldn't attach too much importance to these student riots. I remember when I was a student at the Sorbonne in Paris, I used to go out and riot occasionally.

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Other Usage Examples

While F.D.R. once told Americans that we have nothing to fear but fear itself, Mr. Ashcroft is delighted to play the part of Fear Itself, an assignment in which he lets his imagination run riot.

The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.

You can't just lecture the poor that they shouldn't riot or go to extremes. You have to make the means of legal redress available.