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# riot

«riot» in Mova's school dictionary: **A violent, noisy disturbance by a crowd of people in a…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 4 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a riot, riots); verb (riot, riots, rioted, rioting)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A violent, noisy disturbance by a crowd of people in a public place. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/riot/#m1)

2) Verb: to take part in such a disturbance. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/riot/#m2)

3) (informal) A very funny or fun person or event: The party was a riot. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/riot/#m3)

4) «A riot of colour»: a very bright mix of colours. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/riot/#m4)

5) «Run riot»: to behave wildly without control, or to grow wildly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/riot/#m5)

### sense in the lessons

In history and news a riot shows anger and breaking the law; police in riot gear try to stop it. In everyday talk «She's a riot!» means she is great fun. In gardens plants can «run riot». «Read the riot act» means to tell someone off strongly.

### examples

- Police were called to stop the riot. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/riot/#x1)
- The fans rioted after the match. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/riot/#x2)
- Your birthday party was a riot! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/riot/#x3)
- The garden was a riot of colour in spring. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/riot/#x4)
- The children ran riot when the teacher left the room. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/riot/#x5)
- Mum read us the riot act about the mess. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/riot/#x6)

### note

Adjective: riotous; person: rioter. Being near a riot is dangerous — move away and stay safe.

### In the corpora

- [When you hear them, translate them back: kill, prison, riot, propaganda, false.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/25-spin-war-and-violence/4/)
- ["Civil unrest" means riots and protests.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/25-spin-war-and-violence/9/)
- ["Disturbances" means riots (UK).](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/25-spin-war-and-violence/10/)
- [Historians think the famous riots of people shouting "give us our eleven days" probably never happened.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/116-how-our-calendar-was-made/20/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «riot» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/riot/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.