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verb

Rile v. t. (past & past part. riled; pres. part. riling)

To render turbid or muddy; to stir up; to roil.

To stir up in feelings; to make angry; to vex. Note: In both senses provincial in England and colloquial in the United States.

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"Rile" Quotes from Famous Books

... showing anger, when one is unfortunate enough to be under the necessity of being angry. You can't always help it. Some people are never put out. However much you rile them, they are always good-humoured, always cool, always friendly. You might as well try to talk the sun behind a cloud as to get them in a rage. Happy the few who have this art! They always get the best of it, they always win the greatest respect, they always are the least likely people ...

— Parkhurst Boys - And Other Stories of School Life • Talbot Baines Reed

... "Look here, Mister Rile, vill you be pleashed to ssay when we are to hov' something to eat?—for by Gott! ve vill kill te dom pigs in the long-boat if the skipper ...

— Great Sea Stories • Various

... Idepski addressed himself solely to Standing. "I guess you've said a deal calculated to rile, and your pardner's done more," he went on. "Still—anyway we're mostly men and not school-kids. What's ...

— The Man in the Twilight • Ridgwell Cullum

... into the main room, where the tickers and blackboards were. As I approached through my outer office I could hear the noise the crowd was making—as they cursed me. If you want to rile the very inmost soul of the average human being, don't take his reputation or his wife; just cause him to lose money. There were among my customers many with the true, even-tenored sporting instinct. These were bearing their losses with philosophy—none of them ...

— Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 5, June 1905 • Various

... to know my notions On sartin pints thet rile the land; There's nothin' thet my natur so shuns Ez bein' mum or underhand; I'm a straight-spoken kind o' creetur Thet blurts right out wut's in his head. An' ef I've one pecooler feetur, It is a ...

— The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell • James Lowell

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