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Riled   /raɪld/   Listen
Riled

adjective
1.
Aroused to impatience or anger.  Synonyms: annoyed, irritated, miffed, nettled, peeved, pissed, pissed off, roiled, steamed, stung.  "Feeling nettled from the constant teasing" , "Peeved about being left out" , "Felt really pissed at her snootiness" , "Riled no end by his lies" , "Roiled by the delay"


Rile

verb
(past & past part. riled; pres. part. riling)
1.
Cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations.  Synonyms: annoy, bother, chafe, devil, get at, get to, gravel, irritate, nark, nettle, rag, vex.  "It irritates me that she never closes the door after she leaves"
2.
Make turbid by stirring up the sediments of.  Synonym: roil.





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"Riled" Quotes from Famous Books



... other, with a nod. "I got riled at the way he cleared us out of our own room; and once, when he shut the door and Gran' went off to get some gin, I sat down at the door and listened. He wanted her to give up some papers, an' she wouldn't. She said she'd die ...
— The Mystery of a Hansom Cab • Fergus Hume
... granfather an' great-gran'father was millers, too; an' the way the fam'ly got such big hands come from their habit of scoopin' up a extry quart or two of meal or flour fur themselves when they was levellin' off their customers' measures. He was a good-natered feller, though, an' never got riled when I'd tell him to clap his ...
— The Magic Egg and Other Stories • Frank Stockton
... to put nobody next," Slim asserted. "Happy's got to take chances, same as I did. And while we're on the subject, Patsy was on the prod before I struck camp, or he wouldn't uh acted the way he done. Somebody else riled him ...
— The Happy Family • Bertha Muzzy Bower
... wits and was pickin' a row to no advantage. I'll admit the gent riled me some, but the point I had in view was what old Judge Hinky used to call "shifting the issue." I wanted to make one stab at just one man—not the whole party—on grounds that the rest of the crowd, who was plainly all good two-handed punchers, would see was perfectly fair. And I intended to ...
— Red Saunders' Pets and Other Critters • Henry Wallace Phillips
... Farnsworth looked at the speaker. "Daisy Dow," he said, quietly, "don't you get me any more riled than I am! If you do, I ...
— Patty's Butterfly Days • Carolyn Wells


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