Riot vs Confuse - What's the difference?
riot | confuse |
Wanton or unrestrained behavior; uproar; tumult.
* Shakespeare
The tumultuous disturbance of the public peace by an unlawful assembly of three or more persons in the execution of some private object.
Excessive and expensive feasting; wild and loose festivity; revelry.
* Chaucer
* Alexander Pope
To create or take part in a riot; to raise an uproar or sedition.
(obsolete) To act in an unrestrained or wanton manner; to indulge in excess of luxury, feasting, etc.
* Daniel
* Alexander Pope
To thoroughly mix; to confound; to disorder.
(obsolete) To rout; discomfit.
To mix up; to puzzle; to bewilder.
To make uneasy and ashamed; to embarrass.
To mistake one thing for another.
In obsolete|lang=en terms the difference between riot and confuse
is that riot is (obsolete) to act in an unrestrained or wanton manner; to indulge in excess of luxury, feasting, etc while confuse is (obsolete) to rout; discomfit.As verbs the difference between riot and confuse
is that riot is to create or take part in a riot; to raise an uproar or sedition while confuse is to thoroughly mix; to confound; to disorder.As a noun riot
is wanton or unrestrained behavior; uproar; tumult.riot
English
(wikipedia riot)Noun
(en noun)- His headstrong riot hath no curb.
- Venus loveth riot and dispense.
- the lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day
Derived terms
* rioter * run riotVerb
(en verb)- The nuclear protesters rioted outside the military base.
- Now he exact of all, wastes in delight, / Riots in pleasure, and neglects the law.
- No pulse that riots , and no blood that glows.
