'Riot' definitions:
Definition of 'riot'
(from WordNet)
noun
A public act of violence by an unruly mob [syn: riot, public violence]
noun
A state of disorder involving group violence [syn: rioting, riot]
noun
A joke that seems extremely funny [syn: belly laugh, sidesplitter, howler, thigh-slapper, scream, wow, riot]
noun
A wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity [syn: orgy, debauch, debauchery, saturnalia, riot, bacchanal, bacchanalia, drunken revelry]
verb
Take part in a riot; disturb the public peace by engaging in a riot; "Students were rioting everywhere in 1968"
verb
Definition of 'Riot'
From: GCIDE
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- Now he exact of all, wastes in delight, Riots in pleasure, and neglects the law. --Daniel. [1913 Webster]
- No pulse that riots, and no blood that glows. --Pope. [1913 Webster]
- 2. (Law) To disturb the peace; to raise an uproar or sedition. See Riot, n., 3. --Johnson. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Riot'
From: GCIDE
- Riot \Ri"ot\, v. t. To spend or pass in riot. [1913 Webster]
- [He] had rioted his life out. --Tennyson. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Riot'
From: GCIDE
- Riot \Ri"ot\, n. [OF. riote, of uncertain origin; cf. OD. revot, ravot.]
- 1. Wanton or unrestrained behavior; uproar; tumult. [1913 Webster]
- His headstrong riot hath no curb. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Excessive and exxpensive feasting; wild and loose festivity; revelry. [1913 Webster]
- Venus loveth riot and dispense. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
- The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day. --Pope. [1913 Webster]
- 3. (Law) The tumultuous disturbance of the public peace by an unlawful assembly of three or more persons in the execution of some private object. [1913 Webster]
- To run riot, to act wantonly or without restraint. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'riot'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abundance,
- ado,
- affluence,
- affray,
- ample sufficiency,
- ampleness,
- amplitude,
- anarchism,
- anarchy,
- arise,
- assault,
- attack,
- avalanche,
- barbarize,
- batter,
- battering,
- battle,
- belly laugh,
- best seller,
- big hit,
- blue story,
- bonanza,
- bother,
- bountifulness,
- bountiousness,
- box,
- brawl,
- brilliant success,
- broil,
- brouhaha,
- brutalize,
- bud,
- bumper crop,
- burgeon,
- burn,
- burst forth,
- butcher,
- butchery,
- carouse,
- carry on,
- civil disorder,
- clash,
- close,
- collide,
- combat,
- come to blows,
- comedian,
- comedienne,
- commotion,
- contend,
- contest,
- copiousness,
- create a disturbance,
- create a riot,
- cut and thrust,
- cut loose,
- destroy,
- dirty joke,
- dirty story,
- disorderliness,
- disruption,
- distemper,
- disturbance,
- do,
- donnybrook,
- donnybrook fair,
- double entendre,
- duel,
- dustup,
- embroilment,
- emeute,
- ethnic joke,
- exchange blows,
- extravagance,
- exuberance,
- fad,
- fence,
- fertility,
- feud,
- fight,
- fight a duel,
- flood,
- flourish,
- flow,
- foison,
- foofaraw,
- forcible seizure,
- fracas,
- fray,
- free-for-all,
- frolic,
- full measure,
- fullness,
- fun,
- funny story,
- fuss,
- gag,
- gas,
- gasser,
- gemmate,
- general uprising,
- generosity,
- generousness,
- germinate,
- give and take,
- give satisfaction,
- go berserk,
- go on,
- good one,
- good story,
- grapple,
- grapple with,
- great abundance,
- great plenty,
- great success,
- grow,
- grow rank,
- gush,
- hammer,
- hassle,
- hell,
- helter-skelter,
- hit,
- howl,
- howler,
- hubbub,
- imbroglio,
- insurge,
- insurgence,
- insurgency,
- insurrect,
- insurrection,
- jacquerie,
- jape,
- jest,
- jestbook,
- joke,
- jostle,
- joust,
- killing,
- knock-down-and-drag-out,
- landslide,
- laugh,
- lavishness,
- lawlessness,
- lay waste,
- laying waste,
- leaf,
- leaf out,
- leave,
- levee en masse,
- liberality,
- liberalness,
- loot,
- looting,
- lots,
- luxuriance,
- luxuriate,
- make a commotion,
- make an ado,
- make trouble,
- massacre,
- maul,
- maximum,
- melee,
- meteoric success,
- misrule,
- mix it up,
- momentary success,
- more than enough,
- mount the barricades,
- much,
- mug,
- mutineer,
- mutiny,
- myriad,
- myriads,
- numerousness,
- obstreperousness,
- onslaught,
- opulence,
- opulency,
- outbreak,
- outburst,
- outpouring,
- overflow,
- overgrow,
- overrun,
- overthrow,
- pandemonium,
- panic,
- peasant revolt,
- pell-mell,
- pillage,
- pillaging,
- play,
- plenitude,
- plenteousness,
- plentifulness,
- plenty,
- point,
- pother,
- prevalence,
- prodigality,
- productiveness,
- profuseness,
- profusion,
- pullulate,
- put forth,
- put forth leaves,
- put out buds,
- putsch,
- quantities,
- quarrel,
- racket,
- rage,
- raise a ruckus,
- raise a rumpus,
- raise a storm,
- ramp,
- rampage,
- rant,
- rape,
- rassle,
- rave,
- rebel,
- rebellion,
- reluct,
- reluctate,
- repleteness,
- repletion,
- resounding triumph,
- revolt,
- revolute,
- revolution,
- revolutionize,
- rib tickler,
- rich harvest,
- rich vein,
- richness,
- rioting,
- riotousness,
- rise,
- rise up,
- rising,
- roar,
- roaring success,
- roil,
- roister,
- root,
- rough-and-tumble,
- roughhouse,
- row,
- ruckus,
- ruction,
- ruin,
- rumpus,
- run a tilt,
- run amok,
- run riot,
- run wild,
- sack,
- sacking,
- savage,
- scads,
- scramble,
- scream,
- scrimmage,
- scuffle,
- sensation,
- shindy,
- shoot,
- shoot up,
- shower,
- sick joke,
- sidesplitter,
- sight gag,
- skirmish,
- slaughter,
- smash,
- smash hit,
- sow chaos,
- sowing with salt,
- spar,
- spate,
- sport,
- spree,
- sprout,
- sprout up,
- stir,
- storm,
- story,
- stream,
- strife,
- strike,
- strike root,
- strive,
- struggle,
- substantiality,
- substantialness,
- subvert,
- superabundance,
- take root,
- tear,
- tear around,
- teemingness,
- terrorize,
- thrust and parry,
- tilt,
- to-do,
- tourney,
- triumph,
- trouble,
- tumult,
- turbulence,
- turmoil,
- tussle,
- unrest,
- unruliness,
- uprising,
- uproar,
- upspear,
- upsprout,
- vandalize,
- vegetate,
- violate,
- violation,
- violence,
- visual joke,
- wage war,
- war,
- wassail,
- wealth,
- wheeze,
- wow,
- wreck,
- wrestle,
- yarn