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Riot vs Fracas - What's the difference?

riot | fracas |

As nouns the difference between riot and fracas

is that riot is wanton or unrestrained behavior; uproar; tumult while fracas is failure.

As a verb riot

is to create or take part in a riot; to raise an uproar or sedition.

riot

English

(wikipedia riot)

Noun

(en noun)
  • Wanton or unrestrained behavior; uproar; tumult.
  • * Shakespeare
  • His headstrong riot hath no curb.
  • 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
  • Venus loveth riot and dispense.
  • * Alexander Pope
  • the lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day

    Derived terms

    * rioter * run riot

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To create or take part in a riot; to raise an uproar or sedition.
  • The nuclear protesters rioted outside the military base.
  • (obsolete) To act in an unrestrained or wanton manner; to indulge in excess of luxury, feasting, etc.
  • * Daniel
  • Now he exact of all, wastes in delight, / Riots in pleasure, and neglects the law.
  • * Alexander Pope
  • No pulse that riots , and no blood that glows.

    Anagrams

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    fracas

    English

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • A noisy disorderly quarrel, fight, brawl, disturbance or scrap.
  • * 1989 , , Faber 1999, paperback edition, p. 16,
  • And I recall also some years ago, Mr Rayne, who travelled to America as valet to Sir Reginals Mauvis, remarking that a taxi driver in New York regularly addressed his fare in a manner which if repeated in London would end in some sort of fracas , if not in the fellow being frogmarched to the nearest police station.
  • * 1964 , , Vintage Books 2002, paperback edition, p. 37,
  • The Oregon-Northern California region had lost much of its population during the fracas of 1980; it had been heavily hit by Red Chinese guided missiles, and of course the clouds of fallout had blanketed it in the subsequent decade.

    Synonyms

    * brouhaha * kerfuffle * melee