transcription, транскрипция: [ raɪət ]
( riots, rioting, rioted)
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
1.
When there is a riot , a crowd of people behave violently in a public place, for example they fight, throw stones, or damage buildings and vehicles.
Twelve inmates have been killed during a riot at the prison.
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2.
If people riot , they behave violently in a public place.
Last year 600 inmates rioted, starting fires and building barricades...
VERB : V
• ri‧ot‧er
(rioters)
The militia dispersed the rioters.
N-COUNT
• ri‧ot‧ing
At least fifteen people are now known to have died in three days of rioting.
N-UNCOUNT
3.
If you say that there is a riot of something pleasant such as colour, you mean that there is a large amount of various types of it.
All the cacti were in flower, so that the desert was a riot of colour...
N-SING : a N of n [ approval ]
4.
If someone in authority reads you the riot act , they tell you that you will be punished unless you start behaving properly.
I’m glad you read the riot act to Billy. He’s still a kid and still needs to be told what to do.
PHRASE : V inflects
5.
If people run riot , they behave in a wild and uncontrolled manner.
Rampaging prisoners ran riot through Strangeways jail.
PHRASE : V inflects
6.
If something such as your imagination runs riot , it is not limited or controlled, and produces ideas that are new or exciting, rather than sensible.
A conservatory offers the perfect excuse to let your imagination run riot.
PHRASE : V inflects