Word Finder - riot

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Wanton or unrestrained behavior; uproar; tumult.

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The tumultuous disturbance of the public peace by an unlawful assembly of three or more persons in the execution of some private object.

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A wide and unconstrained variety.

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In summer this flower garden is a riot of colour.

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Excessive and expensive feasting; wild and loose festivity; revelry.

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To create or take part in a riot; to raise an uproar or sedition.

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The nuclear protesters rioted outside the military base.

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To act in an unrestrained or wanton manner; to indulge in excess of feasting, luxury, etc.

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To cause to riot; to throw into a tumult.

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To annoy.

Skippy must have read her the riot act.

There is no stopping to read the riot act, no firing over the heads of the mob, in this case.

In 1880 there was a memorable election riot under the guise of an anti-Chinese demonstration.

A scene of riot and disorder was enacted in the Venezuelan capital.

But the discussions in Brandenburg were no more successful than those in Berlin; and at last, on the 5th of December, the king dissolved the assembly, granted a constitution about which it had riot been consulted, and gave orders for the election of a representative chamber.

During the civil wars he lost a large part of his books and manuscripts in a riot, and was compelled to leave Paris.

While at Douai he wrote a scurrilous attack on Queen Elizabeth, which caused a riot among the English students.

The abbey church was partly burnt in 1437, in a riot due to the monks' refusal to recognize the town's chapel of All Hallowes as the parish church, though they had restricted their use of the abbey church for parochial purposes.

A scandalous riot was inaugurated by the members of the Parisian Jockey Club, who interrupted the performance with howls and dog-whistles; and after the third representation the opera was withdrawn.

After a mutiny of soldiers there in 1881, the town was greatly excited by the arrival of an Anglo-French fleet in May 1882, and on the 11th of June a terrible riot and massacre took place, resulting in the death of four hundred Europeans.

Juvenal, in his seventeenth satire, takes as his text a religious riot between the Tentyrites and the neighbouring Ombites, in the course of which an unlucky Ombite was torn to pieces and devoured by the opposite party.

During his absence Arius returned to Alexandria, but even now the people are said to have raised a fierce riot against the heretic.

When his father's abdication was extorted by a popular riot at Aranjuez in March 1808, he ascended the throne - not to lead his people manfully, but to throw himself into the hands of Napoleon, in the fatuous hope that the emperor would support him.

He became a merchant at Athens, and in 1847 his house was burnt down in an anti-Semitic riot.

The acts referred to include those relating to the diseases of animals, destructive insects, explosives, fish conservancy, gas meters, margarine, police, reformatory and industrial schools, riot (damages), sale of food and drugs, weights and measures.

They take a tour through 70s punk, like original riot grrls The Slits, past 80s synth and new wave pop, and end up somewhere that incorporates everything into a thoroughly modern sound.

Ra Ra Riot are one of the new breed of indie rockers operating the Arcade Fire vein, but unlike mere pretenders they bring a little something of their own to the table.

This is riot grrrl rock for a new generation.

Paramore, a popular alternative rock band fronted by Hayley Williams, also used the first verse of Leonard Cohen's song as an intro to their song of the same name from their 2008 tour album titled The Final Riot!

Filmed in an airplane hanger, the video shows the band performing the song while a team of police in riot gear assemble in front of them.

The directions are simple and everyone usually finds this game to be a riot.

The camping area was a riot of color, with thousands of bodies wrapped in every tone and shade of tight-fitting Lycra, each an individual fashion statement on a rock-hard frame.

With the erection of Maesyfed into the shire of Radnor in 1536 Rhayader was named as assize-town for the newly formed county in conjunction with New Radnor; but in 1542, on account of a local riot, the town was deprived of this privilege in favour of Presteign.

Bonaventura runs riot in phrases to describe the union with God, and his devotional works were much drawn upon by mystical preachers.

They were demolished, but as no troops were landed immediately a fresh riot and massacre ensued.

With inexhaustible energy he promoted the legal proceedings over the riot in St George's Fields, when a youth named Allen was killed, and exposed the irregularity in the judge's order for the execution of two Spitalfields weavers.

He was prosecuted for riot in connexion with the surrender of the charter of Nottingham in 1682, being tried before Chief Justice Jeffreys, who fined him Soo marks.

The assent of Lord Elgin to the bill provoked in Montreal a riot which ended in the burning of the houses of parliament, and so great was the indignation of the hitherto ultra-loyal Conservative party that many of its most prominent members signed a document favouring annexation to the United States; Macdonald on the other hand took steps, in conjunction with others, to form a British-American league, having for its object the confederation of all the provinces, the strengthening of the connexion with the mother country, and the adoption of a national commercial policy.

When the emperor Louis divided his dominions between his sons in 817, Louis received Bavaria and the neighbouring lands, but did riot undertake the government until 825, when he became involved in war with the Slavonic tribes on his eastern frontier.

He is also commander of the militia or other armed forces of the state, which he can direct to repel in.vasion, or suppress insurrection or riot.

Since then exterior ornamentation and architectural eccentricities have run riot, and the city is now a mixture of the plain one-storey and two-storey buildings of the Portuguese type, and fanciful modern creations, embellished with stucco and overtopping the others by many storeys.

Like the English scholar and statesman, Thomas Wilson, he owed his escape to the riot which broke out on the death of Paul IV.

Stevens, and a committee of residents, to protect the lives and property of American citizens in case of riot or incendiarism.

The calling in of Pinkerton detectives from Chicago and New1690-1691-1691-16 931691-1693York to settle a strike in the Carnegie steel works at Homestead in 1892 precipitated a serious riot, in which about twenty persons were killed.

The enforcement of the conscription created much opposition in various parts of the country, and led to a serious riot in the city of New York on the 13th-16th of July.

But Fredeiick Williams emotional and kindly temperament little fitted him to use the mailed fist; though the riot which broke out in Berlin on the 15th of March was suppressed by the troops with but little bloodshed, the king shrank with horror from the thought of fighting his beloved Berliners, and when on the night of the 18th the fighting was renewed, he entered into negotiation with the insurgents, negotiations that resulted in the withdrawal of the troops from Berlin.

Meanwhile round the hall of the diet a riot had broken out; the Mettersoldiers intervened and blood was shed.

A riot took place in London, and at the bishop's entreaty, the protector, John, duke of Bedford, came back to England.

At the Home Office he proved his capacity as an administrator; he was the first to appoint women as factory inspectors, and he was responsible for opening Trafalgar Square to Labour demonstrations; but he firmly refused to sanction the proposed amnesty for the dynamiters, and he was violently abused by extremists on account of the shooting of two men by the military at the strike riot at Featherstone in August 1893.

The procedure was purely despotic, and at the first attempt to use the liturgy in St Giles's there broke out the famous " Jenny Geddes " riot in the church (23rd of July 1637).

The foremost and highest place, that of the " essential and supernatural " elements of religion, he would have reserved for its moral and spiritual truths, " its chief evidence and chief essence," " the truths to be drawn from the teaching and from the life of Christ," in whose character he did riot hesitate to recognize " the greatest of all miracles."

The Chinese government suppressed the riot, paid 80,000 in compensation and sent a representative to Europe to apologize for the outbreak.

When the tumult of the Rawendis took place he saw clearly that his personal safety was not assured in Hashimiya,' where a riot of the populace could be very dangerous, and his troops were continually exposed to the perverting influence of the fickle and disloyal citizens of Kufa.

The spirit of debate run riot evokes a counter-spirit to order and control it.

Then came the riot of the 10th of June and the invasion of the Tuileries.

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In 1377 the reformer appeared before Archbishop Sudbury and Courtenay, when an altercation between the duke and the bishop led to the dispersal of the court, and during the ensuing riot Lancaster probably owed his safety to the good offices of his foe.

The riot of his dithyrambic hymns sounded a strange note of nature amid the conventional music of the Gustavians.

He opposed the Mexican War and slavery, and in 1847 was arrested on the charge of instigating a riot, which resulted in the rescue of several fugitive slaves; his trial, in which he was acquitted, attracted wide attention.

Delhi must have experienced a sense of relief at the departure of its conqueror, whose residence there had been rendered painfully memorable by carnage and riot.