RIOT

orgy, debauch, debauchery, saturnalia, riot, bacchanal, bacchanalia, drunken revelry

(noun) a wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity

riot, public violence

(noun) a public act of violence by an unruly mob

rioting, riot

(noun) a state of disorder involving group violence

carouse, roister, riot

(verb) engage in boisterous, drunken merrymaking; “They were out carousing last night”

riot

(verb) take part in a riot; disturb the public peace by engaging in a riot; “Students were rioting everywhere in 1968”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

riot (countable and uncountable, plural riots)

Wanton or unrestrained behavior; uproar; tumult.

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

A wide and unconstrained variety.

(obsolete) Excessive and expensive feasting; wild and loose festivity; revelry.

Verb

riot (third-person singular simple present riots, present participle rioting, simple past and past participle rioted)

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

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

(transitive) To cause to riot; to throw into a tumult.

(transitive) To annoy.

Anagrams

• Tori, Troi, roti, tiro, tori, trio

Source: Wiktionary


Ri"ot, n. Etym: [OF. riote, of uncertain origin; cf. OD. revot, ravot.]

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

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

3. (Law)

Definition: 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.

Ri"ot, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Rioted; p. pr. & vb. n. Rioting.] Etym: [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. Daniel. No pulse that riots, and no blood that glows. Pope.

2. (Law)

Definition: To disturb the peace; to raise an uproar or sedition. See Riot, n., 3. Johnson.

Ri"ot, v. t.

Definition: To spend or pass in riot. [He] had rioted his life out. Tennyson.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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