Usually means: Provoke, irritate, or upset someone.
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  1. rile: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. rile: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. rile: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. rile: Collins English Dictionary
  5. rile: Vocabulary.com
  6. Rile, rile: Wordnik
  7. rile: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. rile: Wiktionary
  9. rile: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. rile: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. rile: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Rile, rile: Dictionary.com
  13. rile: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. rile: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Rile: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. rile: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. rile: Rhymezone
  18. Rile: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. RILE: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  20. Rile: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  21. rile: Free Dictionary
  22. rile: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. rile: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. rile: Legal dictionary

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  1. rile: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. RILE: Acronym Finder
  2. rile: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Rile: Urban Dictionary

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verb:  To stir or move from a state of calm or order.
verb:  (in particular) To make angry.

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