rile
/ɹaɪl/
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Australia/ɹɑel/
rile verb: to stir or move from a state of calm or order.
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.
- To make angry.
- Nothing riles an anti-mosque demonstrator more than being called a bigot.2010 August 30, Charlie Brooker, “Buzzwords for blowhards”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 30 May 2023
- 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.2011 October 20, Michael da Silva, “Stoke 3 - 0 Macc Tel-Aviv”, in BBC Sport, archived from the original on 26 Feb 2022
- Synonyms:
- anger, affront, aggravate, antagonize, awrath, burn up, cheese off, cross, embitter, envenom
rile meaning in Urdu, Malayalam, Kannada and Tagalog
rile in Urdu
- چڑانا, غصہ دلانا, ہلانا, خفا کرنا
rile in Malayalam
- കോപിപ്പിക്കുക, ദേഷ്യംവരുത്തുക, കുത്തിയിളക്കുക
rile in Kannada
- ಕೋಪಬರಿಸು, ರೇಗಿಸು, ಕೆರಳಿಸು, ಸಿಟ್ಟು ಬರಿಸು
rile in Tagalog
- to anger, annoy
- mang-inis, inisin
Examples of rile in a sentence
- It riles me that she never closes the door after she leaves.
- “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.1851 June – 1852 April, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life among the Lowly, volume (please specify |volume=I or II)...
- Francis riled conservative cardinals with his compassion for migrants and refugees, openness towards LGBTQ+ Catholics and demands for action on the climate crisis.2025 May 8, Angela Giuffrida and Harriet Sherwood, “White smoke from Sistine Chapel chimney signals election of new pope”, in The Guardian...
Synonyms of rile
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Forms of rile
| third-person singular present | riles |
|---|---|
| present participle | riling |
| past participle | riled |
| past | riled |
Origin of rile
From a dialectal pronunciation of roil.
Words formed from rile
Words that rhyme with rile
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- gentile
- kyle
- reptile
- sile
- smile
- Lyle
- tile
- while
- beguile
- bile
- Nile
- spile
- argyll
- awhile
- enisle
- guile
- gyle
- I'll
- last mile
- nubile
- resile
- restyle
- senile
- stile
- vile
- autogynephile
- bewile
- chile
- chyle
- Cnile
- District of Argyle
- heil
- ile
- interfile
- isle
- Japanophile
- Kabyle
- kile
- like it's going out of style
- Persophile
- redial
- refile
- revile
- Styal
- thyle
- tickler file
- wile
- worthwhile
Questions about rile
- What does rile mean?
- Rile means to stir or move from a state of calm or order.
- What is rile in Urdu?
- Rile in Urdu is چڑانا, غصہ دلانا, ہلانا. See Rile meaning in Urdu.
- How do you use rile in a sentence?
- It riles me that she never closes the door after she leaves.
- What part of speech is rile?
- Rile is a verb.
- How do you pronounce rile?
- Rile is pronounced /ɹaɪl/ (UK).
- What is the past tense of rile?
- The past tense of rile is riled.
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Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: rile (page history and authors); rile (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); rile (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); rile (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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