Riot /(?)/

Ri·ot

Riot

n.
  1. Wanton or unrestrained behavior; uproar; tumult.
    His headstrong riot hath no curb.
  2. Excessive and exxpensive feasting; wild and loose festivity; revelry.
    Venus loveth riot and dispense.
    The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day.
  3. The tumultuous disturbance of the public peace by an unlawful assembly of three or more persons in the execution of some private object. (Law)

Phrases & Compounds

To run riot
to act wantonly or without restraint.

Riot

v. i.

imp. & p. p. Rioted; p. pr. & vb. n. Rioting

  1. To engage in riot; to act in an unrestrained or wanton manner; to indulge in excess of luxury, feasting, or the like; to revel; to run riot; to go to excess.
    Now he exact of all, wastes in delight, Riots in pleasure, and neglects the law.
    No pulse that riots, and no blood that glows.
  2. To disturb the peace; to raise an uproar or sedition. See Riot, n., 3. (Law)

Riot

v. t.
  1. To spend or pass in riot.
    [He] had rioted his life out.