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Definition of Riot

Riot Wanton or unrestrained behavior; uproar; tumult. Excessive and exxpensive feasting; wild and loose festivity; revelry. The tumultuous disturbance of the public peace by an unlawful assembly of three or more persons in the execution of some private object. 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 disturb the peace; to raise an uproar or sedition. See Riot, n., 3. To spend or pass in riot. Related Definitions: Act, An, And, Assembly, Behavior, By, Disturb, Disturbance, Engage, Excess, Excessive, Execution, Feasting, Festivity, Go, In, Indulge, Like, Loose, Luxury, Manner, More, Object, Of, Or, Pass, Peace, Private, Public, Raise, Revel, Revelry, Riot, Run, Sedition, See, Some, Spend, The, Three, To, Tumult, Tumultuous, Unlawful, Uproar, Wanton, Wild

Riot Quotations A riot is the language of the unheard. Martin Luther King, Jr. A riot is at bottom the language of the unheard. Martin Luther King, Jr. It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour; riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work. Virginia Woolf We live in a time where government is not a leadership thing, it's more a business that's out there and running riot, so I guess the people have to go out there and say stuff. Yahoo Serious Who ever hears of fat men heading a riot, or herding together in turbulent mobs? No - no, your lean, hungry men who are continually worrying society, and setting the whole community by the ears. Washington Irving

Riot Translations riot in Afrikaans is lawaai riot in Dutch is herrie, rel, roerigheid, getier riot in Finnish is mellakka riot in German is Volksaufruhr {m}, Ausschreitung {f}, Aufruhr {m} riot in Italian is rivolta riot in Latin is tumultus riot in Portuguese is motim riot in Spanish is alboroto, disturbio riot in Swedish is upplopp

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