Crossword clues for rile
rile
- Fire up
- Churn up
- Work up
- Really get to
- Get at
- Make waves
- Make hopping mad
- Jazz (up)
- Bother a lot
- Raise the hackles of
- Ruffle some feathers
- Stir to anger
- Get under the skin of
- Muddy the water
- Make furious
- Incite anger in
- Really tick off
- Ruffle feathers
- Really anger
- Make upset
- Cause agitation
- Bring exasperation
- Stir things up
- Really rankle
- Really peeve
- Make really mad
- Make peevish
- Rouse to anger
- Incite anger
- Get all stirred up
- Arouse resentment
- Work (up)
- Word ladder, part 2
- Steam (up)
- Really upset
- Make agitated
- Irritate to no end
- Irritate greatly
- Irritate but good
- Get to, in a bad way
- Get someone's dander up
- Get one's blood boiling
- Bug, and then some
- Boil one's blood
- Be an agitator
- Anger: Colloq
- Anger (with "up")
- Vex; peeve
- Upset: Colloq
- Stir up, without a straw
- Stir up, no spoon
- Stir up (no spoon required)
- Ruffle the feathers
- Make someone clench a fist
- Make really upset
- Make ornery
- Make feisty
- Lire (anag)
- Irritate much
- Irritate considerably
- Induce indignation in
- Get up in arms
- Get on someone's back
- Get chafed
- Cause to get hot
- Cause some vexation
- Cause dander
- Bug but good
- Bug and more
- Bring to anger
- Be aggravating
- Arouse the dander of
- Arouse one's dander
- Annoy but good
- Agitate but good
- Irritate: Colloq
- Annoy greatly
- Make angry (with "up")
- Tick off
- Madden
- Provoke to anger
- Bug and then some
- Rankle
- Nettle
- Heat up
- Incense
- Irk
- Tee off
- Stir up, without a spoon
- Get to, so to speak
- Rub the wrong way
- Agitate, with "up"
- Anger, with "up"
- Get to, in a way
- Steam up
- Peeve, familiarly
- Vex: Colloq
- Disturb, as waters
- Bring to a boil
- Push too hard, maybe
- Stir (up)
- Make stew?
- Chafe
- Put out
- Honk off
- Antagonize
- Ladder, part 6
- Get in a lather
- Make hot, in a way
- Inflame, with "up"
- Wind up
- Cheese off
- Perturb
- Really bug
- Upset and then some
- Anger: Colloq.
- Get one's goat
- Unsettle
- Raise one's hackles
- Provoke wrath
- Ruffle one's feathers
- Cause dander to rise
- Miff
- Get one's dander up
- Provoke Pappy Yokum
- Raise one's dander
- Make mad
- Exasperate
- Get under one's skin
- Get someone's Irish up
- Cause heat under one's collar
- Cause one to get het up
- Make wrathful
- Irritate: Colloq.
- Raise some hackles
- Cause one to get his dander up
- Cause one to get steamed up
- "Aggravex"
- Raises one's hackles
- Stir up incensement
- Cause heat under the collar
- Ruffle the feathers of
- Agitate, colloquially
- Aggravate
- Raise hackles
- Stir up anger
- Nettle rash at first seen on priest from the east
- Put out books have to be pulled from river
- Really annoy
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Rile \Rile\ (r[imac]l), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Riled (r[imac]ld); p. pr. & vb. n. Riling.] [See Roil.]
To render turbid or muddy; to stir up; to roil.
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To stir up in feelings; to make angry; to vex.
Note: In both senses provincial in England and colloquial in the United States.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1825, American English spelling alteration to reflect a dialectal pronunciation of roil (q.v.); compare heist from hoist and in the same era spile for spoil (v.). Bartlett writes that in both England and America roil "is now commonly pronounced and written rile" ["Dictionary of Americanisms," 1848]. Related: Riled; riling.
Wiktionary
vb. to make angry
WordNet
v. cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations; "Mosquitoes buzzing in my ear really bothers me"; "It irritates me that she never closes the door after she leaves" [syn: annoy, rag, get to, bother, get at, irritate, nark, nettle, gravel, vex, chafe, devil]
make turbid by stirring up the sediments of [syn: roil]
Usage examples of "rile".
And anyway, I was riled up by now so I jutted my jaw and stared at her, feeling faint because my heart was locked into atrial fibrillation.
Less inured to tough setbacks, too riled to accept the wormwood of defeat, the senior enchantress paced the shed in mincing steps and balked tension.
There was a smell of perfume still in the air, and the resiny, animal smell, and the smell of the mystical sea, and the sweet cloaking smell of hair all riled up by sex.
Lord Commander beat the ice from the folds of his mantle, and sat, riled to a pang of rare temper.
Well, sometimes this magazine publishes stories that must not be read only on the surface, and, as is almost inevitable, this riles a number of readers.
I began to git a little riled, fur when he called me a Myth he puncht me putty hard.
He avoided a woman in a tent-like fur coat, then went through the revolving doors into the delusory warmth of strip-lighting in the high Riling.
Riled as a cat doused in rainfall, Mearn capped the blaze of his temper.
Even Celeste's yattering failed to rile him, perhaps because she talked mostly about drycleaning instead of her cats and rice pudding and the world's tallest woman.
A blown-up aerial mosaic of the Castle of Death and the surrounding country was produced from a riling cabinet and laid out on the desk.
But you are all riled up like a mashed cat and it's not just her or Orlanda, it's also Line and the hundreds of available girls you've already seen and you haven't even looked in the dance halls and bars and houses where they specialize.
They've been riled up by that dragon of the magic clock, you know, and are looking for Frex to kill him.
Though Hengest had been dead-drunk for most of the last nights doings, when he woke he recalled enough to rile him and he pummelled the rest of the details out of Wulfstan's hide.
He larfed into my face, which rather Riled me, as I had been perfeckly virtoous and respectable in my observashuns.
He's already riled up about Chicago crime, and Lingle was his blue-eyed boy.