Definitions
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- v. Present participle of riot.
- n. A riot.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- n. a state of disorder involving group violence
Etymologies
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Examples
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Since the term rioting usually is just linked with violence, and to end the debate about that - what about big, huge, massive PROTESTS?
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Syrian government television warned citizens against demonstrating, saying that there is a "difference between peaceful protests," which are permitted, and what it called "rioting"The government also warned people against carrying firearms and urged citizens not to stock up on bread.
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Children as young as nine were involved in rioting against police in a loyalist area of north Belfast last night, a bus workers 'union claimed today.
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Otherwise rioting is a violent mob, not a celebration; burning is arson, not raising consciousness about Global Warming; and beheading is murder, not something dreamboat Che Guevara would do.
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The authors reject some common psychological explanations for the mayhem — the idea that fans mimic the violence they see unleashed on the gridiron, or the idea that rioting is a way of relieving frustration after a loss.
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Saber ratteling, war drum beating, arrogance and inciting people to hatred and rioting is not what a government and her people should be doing.
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Well, Jonna, it´s one thing to get drunk and engage in rioting and other anti-social behavior, a fine European tradition, it is another to become absessed with winning and losing to the point that, between seasons, most of a community of over 4,000,000 people (Alabama) broods incessantly on the losses.
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Most of the deaths occurred in rioting in Maiduguri, capital of north-eastern Borno state.
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In order to express their displeasure with the idea that Muslims are violent, thousands of Muslims around the world engaged in rioting, arson, mob savagery, flag-burning, murder and mayhem, among other peaceful acts of nonviolence.
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Those attacks were in revenge for the deaths of 156 people in Uyghur rioting on Sunday, the region's worst ethnic violence in decades.
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