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RUN RIOT

Specialty Definition: RUN RIOT

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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.

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Synonyms within Context: RUN RIOT

ContextSynonyms 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.

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Crosswords: RUN RIOT

Specialty definitions using "RUN RIOT": Cabbage. (references)

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Expression: RUN RIOT

Expression using "RUN RIOT": To run riot. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: RUN RIOT

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

   

Romanian

  

umbla haimana, se dezlãnţui (rage, storm), nu mai cunoaşte frâu. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

вести себя буйно. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

divljati. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

desmandarse (rampage). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

husera (carry on). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

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)

   

Ukrainian

  

лютувати (rage, rampage), поводитися буйно, дати волю (give vent to). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: RUN RIOT

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

baccati, grassatur, lasciviens, lascivitis. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Anagrams: RUN RIOT

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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Crosswords
2. Expressions
3. Translations: Modern
4. Translations: Ancient
5. Anagrams
6. Bibliography


  

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