Meaning

2 senses

  1. 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.

    aufbringen, reizen, ärgern

    злитьzlitʹ, раздражатьrazdražatʹ

  2. To make angry.

    make turbid by stirring up the sediments of

Examples

6 sentences

  1. What's gotten you so riled up?

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  2. Don't get the dog riled up.

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  3. It kind of gets us riled up.

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  4. Don't get so riled up.

    ruНе заводись так.

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  5. That riles me.

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Translations

5 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
to anger, annoy:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
to anger, annoy:

Origin

From a dialectal pronunciation of roil.

From a dialectal pronunciation of roil.

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Forms

riles, riling, riled, riled
Base formrile · to rile
3rd person singularriles
Present participleriling
Past simpleriled
Past participleriled

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyrile
he, she, itriles

Past simpleLesson

all personsriled

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave riled
he, she, ithas riled

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill rile

Synonyms

104 synonyms
irritateB1troubleB1annoyA2botherA2bugA2getA1devilB2jazzB1nerveB2persecuteC1provokeC1stormA2angerB1crossA2
Close in meaning

Word family

3 related words
Derivedrilesomerile upriley

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
rigidrigorousrigorouslyrigourrimB2rimarime
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