rile
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From a dialectal pronunciation of roil.
Pronunciation[edit]
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rile (third-person singular simple present riles, present participle riling, simple past and past participle riled)
- To stir or move from a state of calm or order.
- Money problems rile the underpaid worker every day.
- Mosquitoes buzzing in my ear really rile me.
- It riles me that she never closes the door after she leaves.
- 1851 June – 1852 April, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life among the Lowly, volumes (please specify |volume=I or II), Boston, Mass.: John P[unchard] Jewett & Company; Cleveland, Oh.: Jewett, Proctor & Worthington, published 20 March 1852, →OCLC:
- “Boh!” said Tom, “don’t I know?—don’t make me too sick with any yer stuff,—my stomach is a leetle riled now;” and Tom drank half a glass of raw brandy.
- (in particular) To make angry.
- 2011 October 20, Michael da Silva, “Stoke 3 - 0 Macc Tel-Aviv”, in BBC Sport[1]:
- Riled by a decision that went against him, Ziv kicked his displaced boot at the assistant referee and, after a short consultation between the officials, he was given his marching orders and the loudest cheer of the night.
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Derived terms[edit]
- to rile up
Translations[edit]
to anger, annoy
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to incite
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Spanish[edit]
Verb[edit]
rile
- only used in me rile, first-person singular present subjunctive of rilarse
- only used in se rile, third-person singular present subjunctive of rilarse
- only used in se ... rile, syntactic variant of rílese, third-person singular imperative of rilarse