RIOTING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does rioting mean? 

• RIOTING (noun)
  The noun RIOTING has 1 sense:

1. a state of disorder involving group violence

  Familiarity information: RIOTING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RIOTING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A state of disorder involving group violence

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

riot; rioting

Hypernyms ("rioting" is a kind of...):

disorder (a disturbance of the peace or of public order)

Derivation:

riot (take part in a riot; disturb the public peace by engaging in a riot)

 Context examples 

He lived every moment of his waking hours, and he lived in his sleep, his subjective mind rioting through his five hours of surcease and combining the thoughts and events of the day into grotesque and impossible marvels.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)