rile

Verb

Verb Forms: riled, riling, riles

• To make someone annoyed or irritated; to stir up.
• cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations
• make turbid by stirring up the sediments of
• To stir or move from a state of calm or order.
• To make angry.

Examples

• A perfectly placed block can RILE an opponent, leading them to make rash decisions.
• It riles me that she never closes the door after she leaves.
• Money problems rile the underpaid worker every day.
• Mosquitoes buzzing in my ear really rile me.

Synonyms

annoy, bother, chafe, devil, get at, get to, gravel, irritate, nark, nettle, rag, roil, vex, Idioms:, affront, aggravate, anger, antagonize, awrath, bedevil, boil someone's piss, botherate, bug, burn up, chap someone's hide, cheese off, cross, disgruntle, embitter, envenom, exasperate, frustrate, gall, get, get on someone's nerves, get on someone's tits, get on someone's wick, get one's back up, get someone's Irish up, get someone's back up, get someone's dander up, get someone's goat, get someone's nanny, get someone's nanny-goat, get under one's goat, get up, give someone the shits, grate, grind one's gears, grotch, hack off, harsh one's mellow, hassle, honk off, incense, inflame, infuriate, irk, jazz, madden, make angry, make someone see red, make someone's blood boil, molest, mommick, offend, outrage, pee off, peeve, persecute, pique, piss off, provoke, put out, put someone's back up, raise someone's hackles, raise someone's shag, rankle, rattle someone's cage, rile, rile up, rub someone the wrong way, rub the wrong way, rub up the wrong way, ruffle, ruffle some feathers, ruffle someone's feathers, set off, set up someone's birse, steam, sting, storm, tee off, test someone's patience, tick off, torque off, trouble, try one's patience, wind up