riot
1. a public act of violence by an unruly mob (Freq. 1)
• Syn:
public violence
• Derivationally related forms:
riotous
• Hypernyms:
violence, force
• Hyponyms:
race riot
2. a state of disorder involving group violence
• Syn:
rioting
• Derivationally related forms:
riot (for: rioting)
• Hypernyms:
disorder
3. a joke that seems extremely funny
• Syn:
belly laugh, sidesplitter, howler, thigh-slapper, scream, wow
• Derivationally related forms:
howl (for: howler)
• Hypernyms:
joke, gag, laugh, jest, jape
4. a wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity
• Syn:
orgy, debauch, debauchery, saturnalia, bacchanal,
bacchanalia, drunken revelry
• Derivationally related forms:
bacchanal (for: bacchanal), bacchanalian (for: bacchanal), riotous, debauch (for: debauchery), debauch (for: debauch), orgiastic (for: orgy)
• Hypernyms:
revel, revelry
1. take part in a riot;
disturb the public peace by engaging in a riot
- Students were rioting everywhere in 1968
• Derivationally related forms:
rioter, rioting
• Hypernyms:
rampage
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s
2. engage in boisterous, drunken merrymaking
- They were out carousing last night
• Syn:
carouse, roister
• Derivationally related forms:
roisterer (for: roister), carouse (for: carouse), carouser (for: carouse), carousal (for: carouse)
• Hypernyms:
revel, racket, make whoopie, make merry, make happy,
whoop it up, jollify, wassail
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s
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