riot

/ɹˈaɪət/ · 2 syllables

Meaning

noun

1. a public act of violence by an unruly mob
2. a state of disorder involving group violence
3. a joke that seems extremely funny
4. a wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity

verb

1. take part in a riot; disturb the public peace by engaging in a riot
   “Students were rioting everywhere in 1968”
2. engage in boisterous, drunken merrymaking
   “They were out carousing last night”

Synonyms for riot

• public violence
• rioting
• belly laugh
• sidesplitter
• howler
• thigh-slapper
• scream
• wow
• orgy
• debauch
• debauchery
• saturnalia
• bacchanal
• bacchanalia
• drunken revelry
• carouse
• roister

Words that rhyme with riot

• quiet
• diet
• disquiet
• guyot
• clyatt
• hiatt
• hiott
• hyatt
• iott
• miot
• myatt
• piatt
• pyatt
• pyeatt
• wiatt