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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
rile .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective aroused to impatience or anger
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Examples
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It was testament to the emotions Irvin riled up — for pushing off, for making his exaggerated first-down gesture and just plain being Michael Irvin.
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I had been out plum hunting with the children, and was up in my room, changing my dress when he came, and I couldn't help feeling "riled" - there is no other word that expresses it - when I peeped through the blinds and saw him breaking open and prying into these poor little relics of the Confederacy.
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Last summer, Tina Brown's title riled up the right with its controversial cover photo of Michele Bachmann.
Newsweek Obama Cover: 'Why Are Obama's Critics So Dumb?' (PHOTO, VIDEO) 2012
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He moved into the very last house on the very last street in a little hidden, east-edge L.A. community called Hermon -- you know where the dog parke name riled people up recently.
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He moved into the very last house on the very last street in a little hidden, east-edge L.A. community called Hermon -- you know where the dog parke name riled people up recently.
Possible Reasons Why Chief Bratton SUPPORTS Driver Licenses for Ilegal Immigrants of California 2006
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Jack “Drop the Jew” Glickman would have suited him better, but his opponents knew the J-word riled him into lowering his guard.
Kalooki Nights Howard Jacobson 2006
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Last summer, Tina Brown's title riled up the right with its controversial cover photo of Michele Bachmann.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Jack Mirkinson 2012
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Last summer, Tina Brown's title riled up the right with its controversial cover photo of Michele Bach...
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Jack Mirkinson 2012
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Last summer, Tina Brown's title riled up the right with its controversial cover photo of Michele Bach...
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Jack Mirkinson 2012
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For the most part, she was enthusiastically received, especially by the kindly John Herschel, though she was "riled" by Whewell's chauvinist teasing while dining at Trinity College high table.
The Royal Society's lost women scientists Richard Holmes 2010
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