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run riot1Behave in a violent and unrestrained way: a country where freelance gunmen run riot, looting and hijacking food...- The fight to bring the law up-to-date and stop cyber criminals running riot is severely hampered by the lack of understanding of the scope of the problem.
- Hence why a good teacher wont spend all their time allowing children to run riot in the classroom but wont spend all their time shouting at them either.
- The tearaway runs riot, swears and abuses, causes criminal damage and ridicules the elderly.
Synonyms go on the rampage, rampage, riot, run amok, go berserk, get out of control, run free, go undisciplined informal raise hell 1.1(Of a mental faculty or emotion) function or be expressed without restraint: her imagination ran riot...- Once your child starts playgroup and you go back to work, your emotions may run riot.
- Childhood is a time when imagination runs riot.
- Let us put our mind in neutral, and let our imaginations run riot.
1.2Proliferate or spread uncontrollably: traditional prejudices were allowed to run riot...- The fusion of these two elements has attracted admirers who hanker after this minimalist vision, but Kelly is more at home when she is allowed to run riot with dramatic textures.
- Rumours spread of his solitude, speculation running riot in the castle…
- Names are established, reputations ruined, narcissism runs riot and lives are changed forever.
Synonyms grow profusely, spread uncontrolled, increase rapidly, grow rapidly, luxuriate, spread like wildfire, burgeon, prosper; multiply, mushroom, snowball, escalate, rocket See parent entry: riot |