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verb (used with object), riled, ril·ing. Chiefly Northern and North Midland U.S.
1.
to irritate or vex.
2.
to roil (water or the like).
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Riled
is always a great word to know.
So is gobo. Does it mean:
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare. |
Example Sentences
- New proposed regulations, which have riled beach homeowners, would increase the number of public-access routes to the beach.
- People get all riled up when they got some negative comments for their posts.
- But a series of horrors and leaden-footed official responses have riled them.
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Word Origin & History
rile
1825, Amer.Eng. spelling alteration to reflect a dialectal pronunciation of roil (q.v.); cf. heist from hoist.
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