rile

English edit

From a dialectal pronunciation of roil.

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.

to anger, annoy

to incite

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