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verb

Rile v. t. (past & past part. riled; pres. part. riling)

To render turbid or muddy; to stir up; to roil.

To stir up in feelings; to make angry; to vex. Note: In both senses provincial in England and colloquial in the United States.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Rile" Quotes from Famous Books

... don't like to cuss, but except one or two of them folks I'd sooner live in the middle kittle of hell than in the place that turns 'em out. They rile me—that talk about 'people in the humbler walks of life.' Of course I am humble, but then, son, if you come right down to it, as the feller said, ...

— The Spenders - A Tale of the Third Generation • Harry Leon Wilson

... that are depen's on folks. I don't calk'late to hev no sort of a hard time, ef I don't get riled with it; but these times I doo rile easy." ...

— The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. I, No. 1, Nov. 1857 • Various

... you hab 'lieve yo' min', en I specs you feel bettah. You mus' des promis yo' ole mammy dat you be keerful en not rile up ole mars'r, kase hit'll ony be harder fer you. I'se ole, en I knows tings do hap'n dough dey of'un come slowlike. You des gwine troo de woods now, en kyant see fur; bimeby you come ter a clearin'. Dat boy ...

— Miss Lou • E. P. Roe

... enough of the hangman's knot and the sandbag? Want more, eh? Well, if I wasn't so darned comfortable I'd come over there and give it to you. Now don't rile me!" ...

— Truxton King - A Story of Graustark • George Barr McCutcheon

... galliantry forbids me to ask. I can only judge of the book itself; which, it appears to me, is clearly trenching upon my ground and favrite subjicks, viz. fashnabble life, as igsibited in the houses of the nobility, gentry, and rile fammly. ...

— Memoirs of Mr. Charles J. Yellowplush - The Yellowplush Papers • William Makepeace Thackeray

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