Meaning of RIOT
| Pronunciation: | | 'rIut
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- [n] a wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity
- [n] a public act of violence by an unruly mob
- [n] a joke that seems extremely funny
- [n] a state of disorder involving group violence
- [v] engage in boisterous, drunken merry-making; "They were out carousing last night"
- [v] take part in a riot; disturb the public peace by engaging in a riot; "Students were rioting everywhere in 1968"
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| | Synonyms: | | bacchanal, bacchanalia, belly laugh, carouse, debauch, debauchery, drunken revelry, howler, orgy, public violence, rioting, roister, saturnalia, scream, sidesplitter, thigh-slapper, wow |
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| | See Also: | | disorder, force, gag, jape, jest, joke, jollify, laugh, make happy, make merry, make whoopie, race riot, racket, rampage, revel, revel, revelry, violence, wassail, wheeze, whoop it up, yak | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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\Ri"ot\, n. [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) 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}.] [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) To disturb the peace; to raise an uproar or
sedition. See {Riot}, n., 3. --Johnson.
\Ri"ot\, v. t.
To spend or pass in riot.
[He] had rioted his life out. --Tennyson.
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| Dream Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | Seeing or participating in a riot in your dream, represents a loss of your individuality. You are involved in a situation that is destructive to your being. It is time to stand up for yourself. |
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