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Synonyms for riot

rampage

Synonyms

  • rampage
  • take to the streets
  • run riot
  • run amok
  • run wild
  • go on the rampage
  • fight in the streets
  • cause an affray
  • raise an uproar

run riot: rampage

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  • rampage
  • go wild
  • be out of control
  • raise hell
  • let yourself go
  • break or cut loose
  • throw off all restraint

run riot: grow profusely

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Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002

Synonyms for riot

a quarrel, fight, or disturbance marked by very noisy, disorderly, and often violent behavior

something or someone uproariously funny or absurd

to behave riotously

riot away: to spend (money) excessively and usually foolishly

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Synonyms for riot

a public act of violence by an unruly mob

a state of disorder involving group violence

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a joke that seems extremely funny

a wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity

take part in a riot

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engage in boisterous, drunken merrymaking

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It supplied 150 batons, 150 pairs of riot gloves and boots, 150 flame-retardant headovers, 200 flame-retardant long-johns, and 300 sets of thigh, leg and arm protectors.
He said that Anti Riot Force is trained by Turkish experts having excellent professional skills and equipped with latest gadgetry.
Riot's reason for blocking the two female employees from suing, according to itself, isn't hard to understand: these women have "waived their rights to sue the company" when they got hired.
Still, Tolokonnikova's courageous hunger strikes and Pussy Riot's defiant punk protest performance protests at the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics--when Pussy Riot members were whipped, and pepper sprayed--command our respect.
The riot in 2012 broke out during a search for illegal arms.
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A riot broke out late on November 7, sources close to local authorities told RFE/RL on November 8.
Three-day passes for Riot Fest have been on sale for most of the year, but single-day tickets -- and daily schedules -- were still not available as late as Thursday night, just over a week before the festival is slated to begin.
Riot Games initially sued Shanghai Moonton in the Central District Court of California in 2017.
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'The social media frenzy that Riot has already submitted his membership form is not true,' the newly elected Selangau MP told Malay Mail here.
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These included problems such as poverty (86%), governmental policy (80%), unemployment (79%), with percentages denoting the proportion of rioters agreeing that these themes had influenced their decision to riot.14 Most of the rioters were young men from varied ethnic backgrounds, who felt extremely frustrated without any prospects of employment.
Dubai: Eight men were acquitted on Sunday of running riot at a labour accommodation, setting fire to properties deliberately and causing damage worth around Dh353,000.