rile
to irritate or vex.
to roil (water or the like).
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How to use rile in a sentence
Someone with his innate talent and skills, but who uses those skills not to rile up conservatives and demean the left, but to educate conservatives and respectfully debate the left.
Rush Limbaugh Leaves Behind a Conservative Movement No Longer Interested in Truth. That Alarms Me as a Conservative | Joe Walsh | February 17, 2021 | TimeThe world’s largest democracy is riled up over an e-document.
The toolkit—an international conspiracy in India—is a common practice in protests across the globe | Niharika Sharma | February 17, 2021 | QuartzThe accounts have the potential to reach millions of followers and other world leaders as well as rile up or calm the masses.
Researchers knew that these gorier deaths are involved in some inflammatory conditions, but apoptosis wasn’t previously known to rile up the immune system, Kanneganti says.
How two immune system chemicals may trigger COVID-19’s deadly cytokine storms | Tina Hesman Saey | October 30, 2020 | Science NewsWe have our concerns, especially given the environment of the riling-up of armed militia groups, which the President has been unwilling to tamp down in his rhetoric, and which he may be inclined to actually rile up during that period.
Sherrilyn Ifill, President of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, on the Battle Over RBG’s Seat and Making Every Vote Count | Eben Shapiro | September 27, 2020 | Time
For well over a century, artists have been trying to rile us, making us question ourselves and our society.
Sheikh Hamza, however, refused to join in and rile up the people.
Iraq War, 10th Anniversary: The Last Grand Mufti | John Kael Weston | March 21, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTFirst, to rile up white people about black people and let their lurid imaginations roam.
And Ryan Weighs In: "Net Dependent"? Please | Michael Tomasky | September 18, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTMichael Tomasky says they can't win the swing vote, so they're going with Plan B: rile up the base.
Mitt Romney’s Last-Ditch Strategy: Inflame the Base | Michael Tomasky | September 16, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTIn other words, they want more than anything else not to rile up liberals.
I dare say that spiteful young Dana will call here again just to rile me up by praising her.
Ruth Hall | Fanny FernIf she dont rile me up too much Illyes, Ill try to bear with her this afternoon.
Wheat and Huckleberries | Charlotte Marion (White) VaileWhen the boys want to rile her they get a sling-shot an' shoot the birds in her garden an' she just goes crazy.
Two Little Savages | Ernest Thompson Setonrile some other pool with your clumsy hoofs, and let your betters alone after this!
The Emerald City of Oz | L. Frank BaumIs that true, or did you make it up to "rile" the old Governor?
John Brown, Soldier of Fortune | Hill Peebles Wilson
British Dictionary definitions for rile
/ (raɪl) /
to annoy or anger; irritate
US and Canadian to stir up or agitate (water, etc); roil or make turbid
Origin of rile
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