Dictionary Entry
riot
riot is a 4-letter English word with 12 senses as noun, intransitive verb, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Wanton or unrestrained behavior; uproar; tumult. Face value is 4 in Scrabble and 4 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
4 letters · Scrabble 4 · Words With Friends 4 · 12 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
Wanton or unrestrained behavior; uproar; tumult.
- 2noun
Excessive and exxpensive feasting; wild and loose festivity; revelry.
- 3noun
The tumultuous disturbance of the public peace by an unlawful assembly of three or more persons in the execution of some private object.
- 4intransitive verb
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.
- 5intransitive verb
To disturb the peace; to raise an uproar or sedition. See Riot., 3.
- 6transitive verb
To spend or pass in riot.
- 7noun
a wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity
- 8noun
a public act of violence by an unruly mob
- 9noun
a joke that seems extremely funny
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- 10noun
a state of disorder involving group violence
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- 11verb
engage in boisterous, drunken merrymaking
"They were out carousing last night"
- 12verb
take part in a riot; disturb the public peace by engaging in a riot
"Students were rioting everywhere in 1968"
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