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Meaning riot meaning

What does riot mean?
Definitions in simple English

riot Noun

— A riot is a violent disturbance of the public peace by a crowd.

riot

— noun a public act of violence by an unruly mob — verb take part in a riot; disturb the public peace by engaging in a riot Students were rioting everywhere in 1968 — noun (= rioting) a state of disorder involving group violence — verb (= carouse) engage in boisterous, drunken merrymaking They were out carousing last night — noun (= orgy) a wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity — noun (= belly laugh) a joke that seems extremely funny

Synonyms riot synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as riot?

riot English » English

revolt disturbance rebellion insurrection disorder uproar turmoil tumult mutiny uprising trouble affray debauch confusion commotion strife roister rioting insurgence fight drunken revelry civil disturbance carouse agitation violence unrest sedition saturnalia row rampage public violence orgy melee insurgency fuss dissipate debauchery bacchanalia bacchanal wow upheaval ungovernability turbulence thigh-slapper stir sidesplitter scuffle scrimmage scream ruction

Topics riot topics

What do people use riot to talk about?
Language and thought Think Opinion Agree with someone

Protest
Social behavior Conflict Fight

Riot
Social behavior Authority Submit to authority

Rebel against authority

Conjugation riot conjugation

How do you conjugate riot?

riot · verb

Examples riot examples

How do I use riot in a sentence?

Simple sentences

The police took immediate action to deal with the riot.
The riot was suppressed without difficulty.
The riot was soon put down by the police.
Not less than 10 people were arrested for being involved in the riot.
The riot was put down.
Rumor of a riot was in the air.
The worst riot was in Chicago.
I have the feeling that it's about time to read him the riot act.
He instigated the riot.
He was killed in the riot.
He's a riot!
It was a riot.
Ksenia Aleksandrovna was charged with incitement to riot.

Movie subtitles

Then he'd be free to run riot.
We don't want to cause a riot.
He marches in here and causes a riot!
This number will be a riot.
Send the riot squad and ambulances. Kong has escaped.
Get me the riot squad!
You just don't have to like them to find yourself accused and convicted of riot, arson and armed robbery.
We're here about a riot! - Riot?
I don't see any riot.
We don't need a warrant when there's a riot.
I don't hear or see any riot.
What's more, I don't believe there is any riot.
Of inciting a riot, being a public nuisance.
Or whatever it is that makes you such a riot with women.
Send the riot squad and ambulances.
You have incited this riot against him.
No use in starting a riot, Martin.
We'll cause a riot.
We start a riot, then duck out.
I'm more like a riot.
Grandma, you're a riot.
Riot?
We're here about a riot!
Riot? I don't see any riot.
Hey, Jim, call out the riot squad.
What's more, I don't believe there is any riot. Look for yourself.
I am became incited to riot! And for that, mind you.
Keep it down to a riot!
Looks like a riot.
You'd be a riot in Montreal and Chicago and New York. You know that?
This is a riot, not Bazaar!
He didn't kill anyone. It was an anti-rent riot.
First they'd think they were phony, then they'd yell for the riot squad.
If you riot, he will be blamed!

News and current affairs

The answer is obvious: city dwellers riot; in the countryside, people just starve.
As a result, local police forces have been reduced from 20,000 to 11,000, while the national riot police (CRS) have been reinforced.
The surrealist essence of the rebellion was somehow symbolized by Gilles Caron's famous photograph, in which an insolent smile at a riot policeman subverts the frozen, established order to the point of making it ridiculous.
Last month, Mugabe's riot police, armed with AK-47 rifles, raided the paper, halting production and looting much of its equipment-though not the new printing press, which was too big to carry away.
A Bolshevik anticommunism, similar in its dogmatism to communism itself, has from time to time run riot in parts of Eastern Europe.
Much to the consternation of the Western media, Chinese people worldwide lashed out against its allegedly biased coverage of the Tibetan riot.
Initially, Pussy Riot's troubles attracted little attention, but the hate campaign orchestrated by Orthodox activists and the threat of a seven-year prison sentence for the women turned the tide.
Of course, Pussy Riot could hardly be classified as musicians.
In a sense, Pussy Riot created a simulacrum of a punk-rock group, a piece of performance art about anonymous protest musicians being mistaken for real musicians by real musicians.
By punishing Pussy Riot, Putin has staked his presidency on an eventual conservative victory.
But soon they encounter their own banana peel; indeed, today's global economy is a riot of slipping economic models.
In Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and Latin America, their husbands and sons riot over food prices.
We saw relief workers throw packets of food and clothes from the top of trucks, causing a riot.
In Liberia's capital city of Monrovia last month, young men began to riot because full funding was not yet in place for the UN's disarmament program.
As they marched toward Wenceslas Square, bearing candles, riot police cut them off, and many - men, women, children-were brutally beaten.
And when Libyan leader Colonel Muammar Khadafi, disappointed by the pan-Arabism he advocated, turned to championing pan-Africanism, his people continued to riot to chase out black immigrants.
The move to annex Crimea has reversed any soft-power benefit that Putin might have gained from the Sochi Olympics and the pardons he granted (as recently as December) to imprisoned opponents like Mikhail Khodorkovsky and the members of Pussy Riot.
We saw relief workers throw packets of food and clothes from the top of trucks, causing a riot. Hustlers thrive, the weak watch passively.
A thousand riot police used rubber bullets and tear gas on the workers, and hundreds were injured, but they did not back down.

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