Definition of Riot

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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.

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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

Passion is the mob of the man, that commits a riot upon his reason.
William Penn

The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.
Audre Lorde

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

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

The riot isn't seen in the movie, but it is alluded to. He has this one speech that gives a great sense of texture and paints a picture of what was happening in Harlem then.
Debbie Allen

You can't just lecture the poor that they shouldn't riot or go to extremes. You have to make the means of legal redress available.
Harold H. Greene

Michael Ralph brilliantly plays the street prophet, a West Indian who foreshadows the Harlem riot.
Debbie Allen

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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