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| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Run Riot (To). To run wild. A hunting term, meaning to run at a whole herd. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Activity | Have one's fling, run the round of; go all lengths, stick at nothing, run riot. |
Disobedience | Verb: disobey, violate, infringe; shirk; set at defiance; (defy); set authority at naught, run riot, fly in the face of; take the law into one's own hands; kick over the traces. |
Exaggeration | Out-Herod Herod, run riot, talk at random. |
Excitability | Lose one's temper; break out, burst out, fly out; go off, fly off, fly off at a tangent, fly off the handle, lose one's cool; explode, flare up, flame up, fire up, burst into a flame, take fire, fire, burn; boil, boil over; foam, fume, rage, rave, rant, tear; go wild, run wild, run mad, go into hysterics; run riot, run amuck; battre la campagne, faire le diable a quatre, play the deuce. |
Intemperance | Revel; rake, live hard, run riot, sow one's wild oats; slake one's appetite, slake one's thirst; swill; pamper. |
Redundancy | Verb: superabound, overabound; know no bounds, swarm; meet one at every turn; creep with, crawl with, bristle with; overflow; run over, flow over, well over, brim over; run riot; overrun, overstock, overlay, overcharge, overdose, overfeed, overburden, overload, overdo, overwhelm, overshoot the mark; (go beyond); surcharge, supersaturate, gorge, glut, load, drench, whelm, inundate, deluge, flood; drug, drug the market; hepatize. |
Violence | Verb: be -violent; Adjective: 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; riot, storm; wreak, bear down, ride roughshod, out Herod, Herod; spread like wildfire. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: RUN RIOT |
| Specialty definitions using "RUN RIOT": Cabbage. (references) |
Expression using "RUN RIOT": To run riot. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| Language | Translations for "RUN RIOT"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | kaloj kufitë (encroach, go mad, overrun). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | حيي حياة مستهترة, تجاوز كل حد. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | раста буйно (luxuriate), разлудувам се (cavort, prance), разпалвам се (enkindle, hot, inflame, warm to). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | raivota (be rampant, rage), olla valloillaan (have free reins, rage, run wild). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | ausschweifen (digress, lead a dissipated life). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | ל"תפרע (become unruly, cause a disturbance, get wild), ל"שליך כל רסן, ל "ו' בפראות. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | megvadul (go berserk, to go berserk, to grow savage, to run riot, to take the bit between one's teeth, to take the bit in one's teeth). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 暴れ回る (to rampage, to run riot). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | あばれまわる (to rampage, to run riot). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | unray iotray umbla haimana, se dezlãnţui (rage, storm), nu mai cunoaşte frâu. (various references) вести себя буйно. (various references) divljati. (various references) desmandarse (rampage). (various references) husera (carry on). (various references) taşkınlık yapmak (slop over), kural tanımamak, her yeri kaplamak, ele avuca sığmamak, dal budak salmak (branch, ramify), azmak (become unmanageable, go astray, overflow, romp, run wild, rut, take the bit between one's teeth), azıtmak (go astray, lose, overflow, riot). (various references) лютувати (rage, rampage), поводитися буйно, дати волю (give vent to). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | baccati, grassatur, lasciviens, lascivitis. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "i-n-o-r-r-t-u" | |
-2 letters: intro, nitro, rutin. | |
-3 letters: inro, into, iron, noir, nori, riot, roti, rout, ruin, runt, tiro, tori, torn, torr, tour, trio, turn, unit, unto. | |
-4 letters: ion, nit, nor, not, nut, ort, our, out, rin, rot, run, rut, tin, ton, tor, tui, tun, urn. | |
-5 letters: in, it, no, nu, on, or, ti, to, un, ut. | |
| Words containing the letters "i-n-o-r-r-t-u" | |
+2 letters: incorrupt, irruption, rerouting, ruminator, torturing. | |
+3 letters: corrupting, corruption, importuner, instructor, intergroup, introducer, irruptions, nitrofuran, outroaring, outwarring, overturing, protruding, protrusion, purporting, quercitron, ruminators, trinocular, unworthier, urinometer. | |
+4 letters: carburetion, contrarious, contributor, corrugating, corrugation, corruptions, counterfire, counterraid, enterovirus, frustration, importuners, inaugurator, incorrupted, incorruptly, instructors, intercourse, interneuron, interruptor, intraocular, introducers, mercuration, neurotropic, nitrofurans, overturning, parturition, procuration, proteinuria, protrusions, quercitrons, reintroduce, resprouting, retribution, rubrication, surrogating, susurration, terrigenous, trituration, urinometers. | |
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