rile
English
Etymology
From a dialectal pronunciation of roil.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɹaɪl/
Audio (Southern England) (file) - Rhymes: -aɪl
Verb
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.
Derived terms
- rilesome
- riley
Derived terms
- to rile up
Translations
to anger, annoy
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