Riot

//ˈɹaɪ.ət//

Synonyms for "riot" (388 found)

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Strong matches (116)

Noun(10 words)

disturbance drunken revelry flap hoo-ha howler hullabaloo instability laughathon lawlessness mayhem

do donnybrook donnybrook fair double entendre duel dustup embroilment emeute ethnic joke exchange blows extravagance exuberance fad fat of the land fence fertility feud fight fight a duel flash in the pan

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Related words (194)

melee meteoric success misrule mix it up momentary success more than enough mount the barricades much mug mutineer mutiny myriad myriads numerousness obstreperousness onslaught opulence opulency orgy outbreak

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outburst outpouring overflow overgrow overrun overthrow pandemonium panic peasant revolt pell mell pell-mell pillage pillaging play plenitude plenteousness plentifulness plenty point pother prevalence prodigality productiveness profuseness profusion pullulate put forth put forth leaves put out buds putsch quantities quantity quarrel racket rage raise a ruckus raise a rumpus raise a storm ramp rampage rant rape rassle rave rebel rebellion reluct reluctate repleteness repletion resounding triumph revel revolt revolute revolution revolutionize rib tickler rich harvest rich vein richness riotousness rise rise up rising roar roaring success roil roister root rough-and-tumble roughhouse row ruckus ruction ruin rumpus run a tilt run amok run riot run wild sack sacking savage scads scramble scream scrimmage scuffle sensation shindy shoot shoot up shower sick joke sidesplitter sight gag skirmish slaughter smash smash hit sow chaos sowing with salt spar spate sport spree sprout sprout up stir storm story stream strife strike strike root strive struggle substantiality substantialness subvert superabundance take root tear tear around teemingness tempest terrorize thrust and parry tilt to do to-do tourney triumph trouble tumult turbulence turmoil tussle unrest unruliness uprising uproar upspear upsprout vandalize vegetate violate violation violence visual joke wage war war wassail wealth wheeze wow wreck wrestle yarn

Noun(14 words)

orgy palaver public violence rowdiness saturnalia scream sidesplitter song and dance strife thigh-slapper trouble turbulence upheaval wow

Verb(1 words)

roister

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8 relation types

More general

19 entries

disorder force gag jape jest joke jollify laugh make happy make merry make whoopee racket rampage revel revelry

Showing 16 of 19 words.

Synonyms

4 entries

belly laugh carouse orgy rioting

Related terms

1 entries

commotion

derived

32 entries

Swing riot anti-riot antiriot ariot counterriot laugh riot nonrioting postriot preriot race riot read someone the riot act riot act riot booster riot boosting riot gear riot girl

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is a

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violence

made of

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people

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rampage

related to

25 entries

angry angry mob battle civil civil unrest crazy crazy mob crowd crowd battle crowd upset disturbance enraged enraged crowd feasting fights loose

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Translations

201 translations across 55 languages.

Albanian

3 entries

rrëmujë noun (wanton or unrestrained behavior)
rrëmujë noun (tumultuous disturbance of public peace)
trazirë noun (tumultuous disturbance of public peace)

Arabic

1 entries

شَغَب noun (tumultuous disturbance of public peace)

Armenian

2 entries

ապստամբություն noun (tumultuous disturbance of public peace)
խռովություն noun (tumultuous disturbance of public peace)

Azerbaijani

2 entries

iğtişaş noun (tumultuous disturbance of public peace)
qiyam noun (tumultuous disturbance of public peace)

Belarusian

4 entries

бунт noun (tumultuous disturbance of public peace)
мяце́ж noun (tumultuous disturbance of public peace)
пагром noun (tumultuous disturbance of public peace)
паўста́нне noun (tumultuous disturbance of public peace)

Bulgarian

4 entries

бунт noun (wanton or unrestrained behavior)
бунт noun (tumultuous disturbance of public peace)
въста́ние noun (tumultuous disturbance of public peace)
мете́ж noun (tumultuous disturbance of public peace)

Burmese

1 entries

အဓိကရုဏ်း noun (tumultuous disturbance of public peace)

Catalan

4 entries

aldarull noun (tumultuous disturbance of public peace)
avalot noun (tumultuous disturbance of public peace)
motí noun (tumultuous disturbance of public peace)
avalotar verb (to create or take part in a riot)

Chinese Cantonese

1 entries

暴動 /暴动 noun (wanton or unrestrained behavior)

Chinese Mandarin

4 entries

暴亂 /暴乱 noun (wanton or unrestrained behavior)
暴亂 /暴乱 noun (tumultuous disturbance of public peace)
暴動 /暴动 noun (wanton or unrestrained behavior)
騷亂 /骚乱 noun (wanton or unrestrained behavior)

Czech

4 entries

bitka noun (tumultuous disturbance of public peace)
neklid noun (tumultuous disturbance of public peace)
nepokoj noun (tumultuous disturbance of public peace)
vřava noun (tumultuous disturbance of public peace)

Danish

2 entries

oprør noun (tumultuous disturbance of public peace)
optøjer noun (tumultuous disturbance of public peace)

Dutch

1 entries

rel noun (tumultuous disturbance of public peace)

Esperanto

2 entries

tumulto noun (tumultuous disturbance of public peace)
tumultiĝi verb (to create or take part in a riot)

Finnish

4 entries

hulina noun (wanton or unrestrained behavior)
hulina noun (excessive and expensive feasting)
mellakka noun (tumultuous disturbance of public peace)
rähinä noun (wanton or unrestrained behavior)

French

1 entries

émeute noun (tumultuous disturbance of public peace)

Galician

4 entries

balbordo noun (wanton or unrestrained behavior)
barullo noun (wanton or unrestrained behavior)
boria noun (wanton or unrestrained behavior)
galloufa noun (wanton or unrestrained behavior)

Georgian

1 entries

აჯანყება noun (tumultuous disturbance of public peace)

German

4 entries

Aufruhr noun (wanton or unrestrained behavior)
Aufruhr noun (tumultuous disturbance of public peace)
Krawall noun (tumultuous disturbance of public peace)
Randale noun (tumultuous disturbance of public peace)

Gothic

1 entries

𐌿𐌽𐍃𐌿𐍄𐌹 noun (tumultuous disturbance of public peace)

Gujarati

1 entries

રમખાણ noun (tumultuous disturbance of public peace)

Hebrew

1 entries

התפרעות noun (tumultuous disturbance of public peace)

Hindi

1 entries

दंगा noun (tumultuous disturbance of public peace)

Hungarian

4 entries

felkelés noun (tumultuous disturbance of public peace)
forrongás noun (tumultuous disturbance of public peace)
féktelenség noun (wanton or unrestrained behavior)
lázadás noun (tumultuous disturbance of public peace)

Ingrian

1 entries

buntta noun (tumultuous disturbance of public peace)

Irish

1 entries

círéib noun (tumultuous disturbance of public peace)

Italian

4 entries

baccano noun (tumultuous disturbance of public peace)
bailamme noun (tumultuous disturbance of public peace)
baldoria noun (excessive and expensive feasting)
baraonda noun (tumultuous disturbance of public peace)

Japanese

4 entries

動乱 noun (tumultuous disturbance of public peace)
暴動 noun (wanton or unrestrained behavior)
暴動 noun (tumultuous disturbance of public peace)
狼藉 noun (tumultuous disturbance of public peace)

Khmer

1 entries

ចលាចល noun (tumultuous disturbance of public peace)

Korean

2 entries

반란 noun (tumultuous disturbance of public peace)
폭동 noun (tumultuous disturbance of public peace)

Lithuanian

1 entries

riaušės noun (tumultuous disturbance of public peace)

Macedonian

4 entries

бунт noun (wanton or unrestrained behavior)
бунт noun (tumultuous disturbance of public peace)
ве́селба noun (excessive and expensive feasting)
ме́теж noun (wanton or unrestrained behavior)

Malay

1 entries

rusuhan noun (tumultuous disturbance of public peace)

Middle English

3 entries

riot noun (wanton or unrestrained behavior)
riot noun (tumultuous disturbance of public peace)
riot noun (excessive and expensive feasting)

Norman

1 entries

êmeute noun (tumultuous disturbance of public peace)

Norwegian Bokmål

2 entries

opprør noun (tumultuous disturbance of public peace)
opptøyer noun (tumultuous disturbance of public peace)

Occitan

2 entries

riòta noun (wanton or unrestrained behavior)
trebol noun (wanton or unrestrained behavior)

Persian

2 entries

آشوب noun (tumultuous disturbance of public peace)
شورش noun (tumultuous disturbance of public peace)

Polish

4 entries

bunt noun (tumultuous disturbance of public peace)
hulanka noun (excessive and expensive feasting)
zamieszki noun (tumultuous disturbance of public peace)
zbiegowisko noun (tumultuous disturbance of public peace)

Portuguese

4 entries

algazarra noun (wanton or unrestrained behavior)
motim noun (tumultuous disturbance of public peace)
revolta noun (tumultuous disturbance of public peace)
tumulto noun (tumultuous disturbance of public peace)

Romanian

4 entries

rebeliune noun (tumultuous disturbance of public peace)
revoltă noun (tumultuous disturbance of public peace)
răscoală noun (tumultuous disturbance of public peace)
răzmeriță noun (tumultuous disturbance of public peace)

Russian

4 entries

беспоря́дки noun (wanton or unrestrained behavior)
беспоря́дки noun (tumultuous disturbance of public peace)
бунт noun (wanton or unrestrained behavior)
бунт noun (tumultuous disturbance of public peace)

Serbo-Croatian

4 entries

bùnt noun (tumultuous disturbance of public peace)
nȅmīr noun (tumultuous disturbance of public peace)
бу̀нт noun (tumultuous disturbance of public peace)
не̏мӣр noun (tumultuous disturbance of public peace)

Slovak

4 entries

nepokoje noun (tumultuous disturbance of public peace)
vrava noun (tumultuous disturbance of public peace)
výtržnosti noun (tumultuous disturbance of public peace)
robiť výtržnosti verb (to create or take part in a riot)

Slovene

3 entries

izgred noun (tumultuous disturbance of public peace)
kraval noun (tumultuous disturbance of public peace)
nemir noun (tumultuous disturbance of public peace)

Spanish

4 entries

alboroto noun (tumultuous disturbance of public peace)
algarada noun (tumultuous disturbance of public peace)
asonada noun (tumultuous disturbance of public peace)
batiboleo noun (tumultuous disturbance of public peace)

Swedish

4 entries

kravall noun (tumultuous disturbance of public peace)
tumult noun (wanton or unrestrained behavior)
tumult noun (tumultuous disturbance of public peace)
upplopp noun (tumultuous disturbance of public peace)

Tajik

2 entries

ошӯб noun (tumultuous disturbance of public peace)
шуриш noun (tumultuous disturbance of public peace)

Tamil

1 entries

கலவரம் noun (tumultuous disturbance of public peace)

Thai

1 entries

การกบฏ noun (tumultuous disturbance of public peace)

Turkish

1 entries

isyan noun (tumultuous disturbance of public peace)

Ukrainian

4 entries

бунт noun (tumultuous disturbance of public peace)
за́колот noun (tumultuous disturbance of public peace)
меті́ж noun (tumultuous disturbance of public peace)
повста́ння noun (tumultuous disturbance of public peace)

Uzbek

3 entries

gʻalayon noun (tumultuous disturbance of public peace)
isyon noun (tumultuous disturbance of public peace)
qoʻzgʻolon noun (tumultuous disturbance of public peace)

Vietnamese

1 entries

bạo loạn noun (tumultuous disturbance of public peace)

Welsh

2 entries

cythrwfl noun (tumultuous disturbance of public peace)
terfysg noun (tumultuous disturbance of public peace)

Sample sentences

19 total sentences available.

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The riot police arrived on the scene.

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The riot was suppressed without difficulty.

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The riot was soon put down by the police.

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Not less than 10 people were arrested for being involved in the riot.

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Riot

Synonyms for "riot" (388 found)

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Strong matches (116)

Related words (194)

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Hindi

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Ingrian

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Italian

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Khmer

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Macedonian

Malay

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Norwegian Bokmål

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Portuguese

Romanian

Russian

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Tajik

Tamil

Thai

Turkish

Ukrainian

Uzbek

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