What does rile mean?

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rile

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. annoy, rag, get to, bother, get at, irritate, rile, nark, nettle, gravel, vex, chafe, devilverb

    cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations

    "Mosquitoes buzzing in my ear really bothers me"; "It irritates me that she never closes the door after she leaves"

  2. roil, rileverb

    make turbid by stirring up the sediments of

Wiktionary

  1. rileverb

    to make angry

  2. rileverb

    to stir or move from a state of calm or order

ChatGPT

  1. rile

    To rile means to purposely annoy, irritate, or provoke someone, often causing them to become angry or agitated. It is usually used as a verb.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Rileverb

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

  2. Rileverb

    to stir up in feelings; to make angry; to vex

  3. Etymology: [See Roil.]

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Rile

    rīl, v.t. to make angry, to vex—a form of roil.

Dictionary of Nautical Terms

  1. rile

    An old corruption of rail. To ruffle the temper; to vex.

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Etymology and Origins

  1. Rile

    A provincial corruption of “Rail,” to anger or tease.

Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. RILE

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Rile is ranked #72332 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Rile surname appeared 269 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Rile.

    75.8% or 204 total occurrences were White.
    12.6% or 34 total occurrences were Black.
    5.5% or 15 total occurrences were of two or more races.
    2.9% or 8 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.

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  1. riel

  2. lier

  3. lire

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of rile in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of rile in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of rile in a Sentence

  1. Megan Rapinoe:

    Get me on the bus, get me on one of those planes, i want to rile people up ! Something about me is motivating people to do something, or people are interested.

  2. Justice Neil Gorsuch Ron Bonjean:

    Ronald Krotoszynski Jr. said. However, former communication strategist for Justice Neil Gorsuch Ron Bonjean warned that such a push by Democrats could backfire and rile up the conservative base for the midterms. I think that would just fire up the conservative base big time and... conservative voters would n’t like that and they ’d be pretty fired up going into the November elections, that’s for sure.

  3. Barack Obama:

    Well, what is true is that the ability of Republican leaders to rile up their base -- helped along by folks like Rush Limbaugh and some commentators on Fox News -- I think created an environment in which Republican voters would punish Republicans from cooperating with me, that hothouse of back-and-forth arguments and really sharp partisanship I think has been harmful to the country.

  4. Nicolle Wallace:

    Now Republicans seized on that directive. They used it to rile up their base by falsely claiming that the Biden administration is targeting parents.

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