Illustration: On a Japanese shopping street with its shutters partly lowered, an agitated crowd surges around an overturned metal barricade. Several people jointly wrench another barrier sideways while one smashes an empty shop window with a chair. Broken glass and a toppled planter mark the damage already done.

JLPT N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

暴ぼう動どう

boudou

riot, uprising

Example sentences

暴動ぼうどうの噂うわさが広ひろまっていた。
Rumor of a riot was in the air.
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暴動ぼうどうは手てがつけられなくなった。
The riot got out of hand.
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暴動ぼうどうは彼かれの扇動せんどうによって起おこった。
He instigated the riot.
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Kanji in 暴動

暴outburst; raveOnボウ・バクKunあばく・あばれる
動move; motionOnドウKunうごく・うごかす

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