riots
SayRY-uhts/ˈɹaɪ.əts/
- 1Plural of riot. Use this form when talking about more than one riot.
The riots spread to three cities over the weekend.
After the riots, shopkeepers boarded up their broken windows.
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- 2Third-person singular present of riot. Use this form with he, she, or it in the present time.
The crowd riots whenever its team loses an important match.
When the food gets worse, the whole prison riots.
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riots is a form of riot
riot, noun: A situation where a large angry crowd becomes violent and breaks things in public. Full entry
- Forms
- riotriots plural
- Spelling
- riot → riots: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /s/.
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