to rabble

Examples

• All

• "Now I just rabble-rouse for a living," he said.

  Blog text (12)

• "We rabble want most of all to return to the surface world," Keli replied.

  Fiction book (1992)

• All you rabble Scum and scavengers of France

  The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939)

• If I desired to rabble-rouse

  Blog text (16)

• All you rabble

  The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939)

• You know, Mary Clarence, it is one thing to rabble rouse, to sweep into town and declare a holiday.

  Sister Act (1992)

• "I cannot surrender—not to rabble, not to women," he cried.

  Fiction book (1995)

• You can't rabble-rouse in the classroom and agitate for the kids to take your side as I am certain was done.

  Blog text (17)

• During the protest, the speakers began to rabble the crowd into a frenzy.

• The politician's speech was designed to rabble the audience and encourage them to take action.

Synonyms

C

to crowd

vsto rabble

175 1.6

To move many people or animals into a small space

is noisy and disorderly rather than merely a large gathering

S

to swarm

vsto rabble

89 3.2

To move to a place in large numbers and make it busy

is noisy and disorderly, implying disturbance rather than simple liveliness

R

to roar

vsto rabble

14 2.7

To move or act in a noisy wild way that causes trouble

is noisy and disorderly focused on causing public disturbance

T

to throng

vsto rabble

7 6.4

To gather closely in large numbers in a place

is noisy and disorderly rather than just close pressing together

R

to riot

vsto rabble

• Informal

4 7.1

To celebrate loudly and behave in a wild noisy way

is noisy and disorderly usually with intent to cause disturbance

Antonyms

C

to calm

962 1.0

Make a person or animal less upset

D

to disperse

104 4.4

To cause people and things, like a crowd or fog, to spread over a wide area

Idioms

C

to calm the rabble

8.6

To make a noisy or angry crowd become quiet and stay under control

Compounds

R

rabble-rouser

• Literature

6 8.5

A person who makes a crowd angry or excited about politics

R

rabble-rousing

• Literature

2 8.6

Making ordinary people angry or excited about politics

How Disorderly

to riot

26 4.9

to mob

3 5.5

to rabble

1 8.4

to crowd

175 1.6

to gather

∞ 1.0

to meet

∞ 1.0

Surface Forms

Etymology