rile
verb/raɪl/
/raɪl/
Verb Forms
Idioms | present simple I / you / we / they rile | /raɪl/ /raɪl/ |
| he / she / it riles | /raɪlz/ /raɪlz/ |
| past simple riled | /raɪld/ /raɪld/ |
| past participle riled | /raɪld/ /raɪld/ |
| -ing form riling | /ˈraɪlɪŋ/ /ˈraɪlɪŋ/ |
- rile somebody | it riles somebody that… to annoy somebody or make them angry synonym anger
- Nothing ever seemed to rile him.
- She regretted at once that she had let herself become riled.
Word Originearly 19th cent.: variant of roil, of the same meaning.Want to learn more?
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Idioms
See rile in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionarybe/get (all) riled up
- (especially North American English, informal) to be or get very annoyedTopics Feelingsc2
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