A public act of violence by an unruly mob.

synoniem: public violence.

Roget 713: disagreement etc. 24; discord, disaccord^†, dissidence, dissonance; jar, clash, shock; jarring, jostling etc. v.; screw loose.    variance, difference, dissension, misunderstanding, cross purposes, odds, brouillerie [Fr.]; division, split, rupture, disruption, division in the camp, house divided against itself, disunion, breach; schism etc. (dissent) 489; feud, faction.    quarrel, dispute, tiff, tracasserie^†, squabble, altercation, barney [Slang], demel_e, snarl, spat, towrow^†, words, high words; wrangling etc. v.; jangle, brabble^†, cross questions and crooked answers, snip-snap; family jars.    polemics; litigation; strife etc. (contention) 720; warfare etc. 722; outbreak, open rupture, declaration of war.    broil, brawl, row, racket, hubbub, rixation^†; embroilment, embranglement^†, imbroglio, fracas, breach of the peace, piece of work [Fr.], scrimmage, rumpus; breeze, squall; riot, disturbance etc. (disorder) 59; commotion etc. (agitation) 315; bear garden, Donnybrook, Donnybrook Fair.    subject of dispute, ground of quarrel, battle ground, disputed point; bone of contention, bone to pick; apple of discord, casus belli [Lat.]; question at issue etc. (subject of inquiry) 461; vexed question, vexata quaestio [Lat.], brand of discord.    troublous times^†; cat-and-dog life; contentiousness etc. adj.; enmity etc. 889; hate etc. 898; Kilkenny cats; disputant etc. 710; strange bedfellows.    ... meer laten zien

Roget 719: resistance, stand, front, oppugnation^†; oppugnancy^†; opposition etc. 708; renitence^†, renitency; reluctation^†, recalcitration^†; kicking etc. v.. repulse, rebuff.    insurrection etc. (disobedience) 742; strike; turn out, lock out, barring out; levee en masse [Fr.], Jacquerie; riot etc. (disorder) 59.    ... meer laten zien

Roget 173: violence, inclemency, vehemence, might, impetuosity; boisterousness etc. adj.; effervescence, ebullition; turbulence, bluster; uproar, callithump [U.S.], riot, row, rumpus, le diable a quatre [Fr.], devil to pay, all the fat in the fire.    severity etc. 739; ferocity, rage, fury; exacerbation, exasperation, malignity; fit, paroxysm; orgasm, climax, aphrodisia^†; force, brute force; outrage; coup de main; strain, shock, shog^†; spasm, convulsion, throe; hysterics, passion etc. (state of excitability) 825.    outbreak, outburst; debacle; burst, bounce, dissilience^†, discharge, volley, explosion, blow up, blast, detonation, rush, eruption, displosion^†, torrent.    turmoil etc. (disorder) 59; ferment etc. (agitation) 315; storm, tempest, rough weather; squall etc. (wind) 349; earthquake, volcano, thunderstorm.    berserk, berserker; fury, dragon, demon, tiger, beldame, Tisiphone^†, Megaera, Alecto^†, madcap, wild beast; fire eater etc. (blusterer) 887.    ... meer laten zien

Roget 59: disorder; derangement etc. 61; irregularity; anomaly etc. (unconformity) 83; anarchy, anarchism; want of method; untidiness etc. adj.; disunion; discord etc. 24.    confusion; confusedness etc. adj.; mishmash, mix; disarray, jumble, huddle, litter, lumber; cahotage^†; farrago; mess, mash, muddle, muss [U.S.], hash, hodgepodge; hotch-potch^†, hotch-pot^†; imbroglio, chaos, omnium gatherum [Lat.], medley; mere mixture etc. 41; fortuitous concourse of atoms, disjecta membra [Lat.], rudis indigestaque moles [Lat.] [Ovid]. complexity etc. 59.1. turmoil; ferment etc. (agitation) 315; to-do, trouble, pudder^†, pother, row, rumble, disturbance, hubbub, convulsion, tumult, uproar, revolution, riot, rumpus, stour^†, scramble, brawl, fracas, rhubarb, fight, free-for-all, row, ruction, rumpus, embroilment, melee, spill and pelt, rough and tumble; whirlwind etc. 349; bear garden, Babel, Saturnalia, donnybrook, Donnybrook Fair, confusion worse confounded, most admired disorder, concordia discors [Lat.]; Bedlam, all hell broke loose; bull in a china shop; all the fat in the fire, diable a' quatre [Fr.], Devil to pay; pretty kettle of fish; pretty piece of work [Fr.], pretty piece of business [Fr.].    [legal terms] disorderly person; disorderly persons offence; misdemeanor.    [moral disorder] slattern, slut (libertine) 962.    ... meer laten zien

Roget 742: disobedience, insubordination, contumacy; infraction, infringement; violation, noncompliance; nonobservance etc. 773.    revolt, rebellion, mutiny, outbreak, rising, uprising, insurrection, emeute [Fr.]; riot, tumult etc. (disorder) 59; strike etc. (resistance) 719; barring out; defiance etc. 715.    mutinousness etc. adj.; mutineering^†; sedition, treason; high treason, petty treason, misprision of treason; premunire [Lat.]; lese majeste [Fr.]; violation of law etc. 964; defection, secession.    insurgent, mutineer, rebel, revolter, revolutionary, rioter, traitor, quisling, carbonaro^†, sansculottes [Fr.], red republican, bonnet rouge, communist, Fenian, frondeur; seceder, secessionist, runagate, renegade, brawler, anarchist, demagogue; Spartacus, Masaniello, Wat Tyler, Jack Cade; ringleader.    ... meer laten zien

Pools: rozruchy, ruchawka, zamieszki, tumult, wrzenie

A state of disorder involving group violence.

synoniem: rioting.

A joke that seems extremely funny.

synoniemen: belly laugh, howler, scream, sidesplitter, thigh-slapper, wow.

Nederlands: giller, wow

A wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity.

synoniemen: bacchanal, bacchanalia, debauch, debauchery, drunken revelry, orgy, saturnalia.

Nederlands: bacchanaal, orgie, tuchtloosheid, lichtzinnigheid, frivoliteit, liederlijkheid, bandeloosheid, zedeloosheid, losbandigheid, saturnaliën

Take part in a riot; disturb the public peace by engaging in a riot.

Roget 173: be violent etc. adj.; run high; ferment, effervesce; romp, rampage, go on a rampage; run wild, run amuck, run riot; break the peace; rush, tear; rush headlong, rush foremost; raise a storm, make a riot; rough house [Slang]; riot, storm; wreak, bear down, ride roughshod, out Herod, Herod; spread like wildfire (person). [shout or act in anger at something], explode, make a row, kick up a row; boil, boil over; fume, foam, come on like a lion, bluster, rage, roar, fly off the handle, go bananas, go ape, blow one's top, blow one's cool, flip one's lid, hit the ceiling, hit the roof; fly into a rage (anger) 900.    break out, fly out, burst out; bounce, explode, go off, displode^†, fly, detonate, thunder, blow up, crump^†, flash, flare, burst; shock, strain; break open, force open, prize open.    render violent etc. adj.; sharpen, stir up, quicken, excite, incite, annoy, urge, lash, stimulate, turn on; irritate, inflame, kindle, suscitate^†, foment; accelerate, aggravate, exasperate, exacerbate, convulse, infuriate, madden, lash into fury; fan the flame; add fuel to the flame, pour oil on the fire, oleum addere camino [Lat.].    explode; let fly, fly off; discharge, detonate, set off, detonize^†, fulminate.    ... meer laten zien

Roget 61: derange; disarrange, misarrange^†; displace, misplace; mislay, discompose, disorder; deorganize^†, discombobulate, disorganize; embroil, unsettle, disturb, confuse, trouble, perturb, jumble, tumble; shuffle, randomize; huddle, muddle, toss, hustle, fumble, riot; bring into disorder, put into disorder, throw into disorder etc. 59; muss [U.S.]; break the ranks, disconcert, convulse; break in upon.    unhinge, dislocate, put out of joint, throw out of gear.    turn topsy-turvy etc. (invert) 218; bedevil; complicate, involve, perplex, confound; imbrangle^†, embrangle^†, tangle, entangle, ravel, tousle, towzle^†, dishevel, ruffle; rumple etc. (fold) 258.    litter, scatter; mix etc. 41.    rearrange etc. 148.    ... meer laten zien

Engage in boisterous, drunken merrymaking.

synoniemen: carouse, roister.

Nederlands: pret maken