Synonym: brawl, mutiny, rebel, revolt, rise up. Antonym: peace. Similar words: period, prior, warrior, prior to, curious, various, scenario, priority. Meaning: ['raɪət] n. 1. a public act of violence by an unruly mob 2. a state of disorder involving group violence 3. a joke that seems extremely funny 4. a wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity. v. 1. take part in a riot; disturb the public peace by engaging in a riot 2. engage in boisterous, drunken merrymaking.
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181, After reining in the regional barons and tackling the business oligarchs, Mr Putin read the riot act to the generals.
182, On May 8 Chamlong led another large rally at Democracy Monument, where some demonstrators came close to clashing with riot police.
183, The technology to implement the displacement of oil by burning coal with gas does riot compare in complexity with these wartime developments.
184, After the Watts rebellion, Johnsoh asked Hoover to expand his intelligence operations to include riot prediction.
185, A riot began when drug traffickers tried to free their jailed confederates.
186, Now however[Sentencedict], a miniature version of the race riot that Gallagher had predicted exploded on campus.
187, The skills he displayed during the riot earned him an Achievement of the Year award from his fraternity.
188, Also Tuesday, opposition leaders said they will mount a new challenge to riot police blocking protest marches.
189, The situation in the city centre is getting increasingly confused, and riot police have been told to stand by.
190, But on Dec. 25, Milosevic banned street demonstrations and deployed cordons of heavily armed riot police to block the parades.
191, One approach was to read these young people the riot act and let them repent or retreat.
192, Its people are overburdened by religious riot, ethnic strife, corruption and the absence of social infrastructure.
193, I move among the aisles and walkways, which are a scented, winking, shimmering, crooning riot of Christmas.
194, Police in riot gear in turn fired. 37-caliber rubber bullets and beanbag weapons.
195, The catalyst for the demonstrations was the beating to death of a student demonstrator by riot police.
196, A team in riot gear went into Glentworth House, Netherfields, on Wednesday night to arrest a 29-year-old man.
197, There was another riot at the men's detention center yesterday.
198, Most plastics, however, will display a riot of colour when treated similarly.
199, Missed departure Strike, riot or civil commotion in respect of which a warning has been given prior to the date this insurance is purchased.
200, The Harlem riot erupted when an off-duty policeman killed James Powell, a teenage boy who had allegedly attacked him.
201, One day after the riot, probation officers and state and county investigators interviewed children and the administrators.
202, Perhaps, after all, a general election is only the sublimation of a darned good riot.
203, A Delicious mural was painted, a riot of colour, with the adjoining pub lending us a ladder.
204, But if we do clear-mindedly and explicitly take decisions riot to have necessitating circumstances, do we call them effects at all?
205, The memorial service for the slain leader erupted into a riot Saturday.
206, He then proceeded to read the riot act to his headstrong brother.