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anti-riot

anti-riot is the alternative form of antiriot.

Meaning of antiriot

Adjective

antiriot (not comparable)

  1. Serving to counteract rioting.
    • Thus, the administration was not in favor of an antiriot bill before Congress that was designed to curb militant blacks suspected of encouraging riots.1990, Brigitte Lebens Nacos, The Press, Presidents, and Crises

Origin of anti-riot

From anti- + riot.

Questions about anti-riot

What is anti-riot the alternative form of?
Anti-riot is the alternative form of antiriot.

Words near anti-riot in the dictionary

  1. anti-retaliation
  2. anti-revolutionaries
  3. anti-revolutionary
  4. anti-Reylo
  5. anti-rheumatic
  6. anti-riot
  7. anti-rocker
  8. anti-rockers
  9. anti-roll bar
  10. anti-roll bars
  11. anti-room

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