riot
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Is riot a Scrabble word?
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What is the meaning of riot?
Definition
noun (English)
1. (figurative) A wide and unconstrained variety.Examples: "In summer this flower garden is a riot of colour."; "The human world is contracting not only prospectively but to the backward-probing eye of culture-history. Nevertheless we are as yet far from able to reduce the riot of spoken languages to a small number of “stocks.”"countablefigurativelyuncountable
2. (colloquial, uncountable) A humorous or entertaining event or person.Examples: "Check this out! We have to get this! I can't believe all this stuff! This is a total riot!"colloquialuncountable
3. (obsolete) Excessive and expensive feasting; wild and loose festivity; revelry.Examples: "the lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day"countableobsoleteuncountable
verb (English)
1. (intransitive) To create or take part in a riot; to raise an uproar or sedition.Examples: "The nuclear protesters rioted outside the military base."intransitive
2. (intransitive, obsolete) To act in an unrestrained or wanton manner; to indulge in excess of feasting, luxury, etc.Examples: "Now he exact of all, wastes in delight, / Riots in pleasure, and neglects the law."; "Think of the insults, wrongs, and contumelies, / Ye bear from your proud lords—that your hard toil / Manures their fertile fields—you plow the earth, / You sow the corn, you reap the ripen'd harvest,— / They riot on the produce!— […]"intransitiveobsolete
3. (transitive) To cause to riot; to throw into a tumult.transitive
4. (transitive) To annoy.transitive
Definition source: Wiktionary