I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
full-scale attack/war/riot etc
quell the violence/disturbance/riot etc
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Police used live ammunition to quell the disturbances.
race riot
riot police
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Riot police moved in with tear gas.
riot police
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Riot police fired tear gas into the crowd.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
running
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No, it was just my imagination running riot .
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He was running riot , switching off lights and knocking things over.
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Cov giving up, Leeds running riot .
serious
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Conflict with the police led to serious riots at Birkenhead and Belfast during the campaign against the Means Test in 1932.
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The serious provincial riots in April-June last year in Xian, Changsha and Chengdu all involved large numbers of rural unemployed.
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Throughout 1954 there were a number of anti-Hashemite demonstrations, culminating in serious riots in Jerusalem, Ramallah and even Amman.
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The jail was hit by a serious riot last year - following another in 1988.
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In 1932 there were violent demonstrations, several of them leading to serious riots .
urban
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The 1980s saw urban riots on a scale unprecedented in peacetime twentieth-century Britain.
■ NOUN
act
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Nearly all gone now, worse luck, and the guv'nor's arrived to read the riot act .
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One approach was to read these young people the riot act and let them repent or retreat.
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Afterwards, Waziri would read the riot act in Kinyankole, the smoke from the matooke grates swirling behind him.
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He then proceeded to read the riot act to his headstrong brother.
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After reining in the regional barons and tackling the business oligarchs, Mr Putin read the riot act to the generals.
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What good were riot acts being read?
control
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With the continuation of the disorders into 1968, the administration shifted its emphasis - to that of riot control .
gear
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A team in riot gear went into Glentworth House, Netherfields, on Wednesday night to arrest a 29-year-old man.
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Police in riot gear in turn fired. 37-caliber rubber bullets and beanbag weapons.
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Warders in riot gear stormed the room after four hours and marched the 12 protesters to a segregation block.
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Police, many in riot gear , later separated the gangs.
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Almost 1,000 officers, many in riot gear , were needed to restore order.
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Police equipped with riot gear were called to the scene.
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Police, with riot gear on standby, were called in just after 1am this morning.
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Two dozen boys in blue arrive in full riot gear .
police
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Five hundred riot police now patrol the streets.
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As two months before, the students were no match for the riot police .
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The catalyst for the demonstrations was the beating to death of a student demonstrator by riot police .
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He manages a hotel unhappily located across from the cathedral where workers and riot police have staged nightly confrontations.
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The shopping centre was burned down, riot police were brought in and about 30 people were injured in clashes.
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Then a raid by about 200 riot police ended her nine-day protest.
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Police helicopters hovered and riot police were posted around the square and nearby side streets.
prison
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Riots and Disorder To the general public, the most noticeable symptom of the penal crisis is of course the prison riot .
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They must have felt like wardens in a prison riot .
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Strangeways rioters sentenced Eleven men have been jailed for up to ten years each for their part in the Strangeways prison riot .
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Laramie Avenue in Cicero, where the Danley plant is, would be a good place for a prison riot .
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Indeed, it was explicit in its judgment that the Public Order Act had made a new offence of prison riot unnecessary.
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In 1989, there were just 43, which is about the same as the number of prison riots .
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The government wanted to break up this system, which, it claimed, encouraged prison riots .
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It was supposed to be a prison riot , but it looked more like an encore from the hottest show on Broadway.
race
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Apart from politically inspired race riots in the early 1960s, rarely did Black people behave badly towards us.
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From her seat above the town, Clappe watches the race riot .
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Notting Hill Carnival began unofficially in 1959 as a response to the the previous year's race riots .
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In 1967, the nation was traumatized by race riots in a number of major cities.
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Now however, a miniature version of the race riot that Gallagher had predicted exploded on campus.
shield
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Metal riot shields were introduced in 1970.
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Other demonstrators have managed to draw pink hearts on most of the riot shields .
squad
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And loyalists claim a second inmate was blinded for 48 hours after riot squad prison officers turned high-powered hose on his face.
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Special riot squads were ordered in from outside the city to deal with the gangs.
■ VERB
cause
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Please also note General Exclusion 7b - no cover is provided for loss or damage caused by riots or civil commotion.
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That was when Turnberry George tried to show his movie, which damn near caused a riot .
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Similarly discretion not to prosecute is sometime based on grounds irrelevant to our purpose, e.g. that prosecution will cause widespread riots .
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A play like this, back home, would cause riots .
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He has blamed the police for causing the May Day riot , siding with the Front.
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Attempts to lynch black prisoners continued to cause jailhouse riots in 1919.
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The rooms are full now and if I crowd the place any more it could cause a riot .
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For me personally, the only physical discomfort caused by the riots was having to drive around roadblocks.
lead
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In 1932 there were violent demonstrations, several of them leading to serious riots .
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In many of the incidents leading to riots , police action was a precipitant.
quell
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It was said that armed mounted troopers were grouped outside the oval to quell a possible riot .
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To quell a riot , she kept a sympathetic hand on the manager's arm while the young boy repeated her instructions.
read
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Nearly all gone now, worse luck, and the guv'nor's arrived to read the riot act.
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Afterwards, Waziri would read the riot act in Kinyankole, the smoke from the matooke grates swirling behind him.
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He then proceeded to read the riot act to his headstrong brother.
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After reining in the regional barons and tackling the business oligarchs, Mr Putin read the riot act to the generals.
spark
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The acquittal, however, did not spark riots , as had the King case.
start
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It all seemed to have started with that riot in the Ealing Road.
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There were not enough of them to start a riot .
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She'd started many a riot back home, had been the cause of endless trouble between the Heskeths and their neighbours.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Riot police used tear gas against the protestors.
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Riots erupted in the capital after police banned two anti-government demonstrations.
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A riot broke out after a police shooting of a local man.
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A peaceful rally turned into a riot after police fired into the crowd.
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Altogether the riots cost 130 lives and well over $700 million in property damage.
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Five days of rioting followed the police shooting of student leaders.
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Four days of unrest and anti-government riots left at least three people dead.
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In 1943 there were violent race riots in Detroit in which 25 black people died.
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Isn't that a riot ?
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More than 150 officers battled to end the riots outside the embassy.
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Racial tension boiled over in the inner city riots which spread across the nation last week.
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The army was called in to put down the riots.
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the student riots in Paris in the 1960s
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There were riots in several cities after it was announced that the price of bread would rise by 200%.
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This guy is a riot .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A riot in a drab housing project outside Paris leaves one participant on his deathbed, a victim of police brutality.
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And loyalists claim a second inmate was blinded for 48 hours after riot squad prison officers turned high-powered hose on his face.
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At least 300 people were killed during the weeklong riots.
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By the time the riot was brought under control, the white bus was already back in Dresden.
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Police, many in riot gear, later separated the gangs.
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The violent communal riots of 1969 precipitated his resignation as Prime Minister in 1970.
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Wasn't there three thousand men in Tipperary last Saturday in a riot for work, outside this very building.
II. verb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Gangs of youths rioted for two nights on the streets of the capital.
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Hundreds of prisoners rioted on April 1 in the overcrowded prison.
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Prisoners in several jails have rioted in protest at their appalling conditions.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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At the time of the shooting the students were not rioting or causing civil disruption.
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In July 1834, rioting against abolitionists in New York City resulted in mass destruction of the black section.
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In the end, I think, they did not know how to riot .
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Investors have been a tad nervous since indigenous people rioted for several days in March.
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Some, as you know, seek revenge - they riot , they take drugs and generally make damned nuisances of themselves.
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The congress called on the government to reopen schools and Niamey University, closed following rioting on Feb. 27.
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When the pyramids began to collapse, crowds rioted throughout the small country and opposition activists demanded that the government step down.