rile
verbVerb Forms
Idioms | present simple I / you / we / they rile | |
| he / she / it riles | |
| past simple riled | |
| past participle riled | |
| -ing form riling |
- rile somebody | it riles somebody that…
to annoy somebody or make them angry 惹恼；激怒 Nothing ever seemed to rile him. 好像从来没有什么事让他烦恼。 She regretted at once that she had let herself become riled. 她发过脾气后立刻就后悔了。
Word Originearly 19th cent.: variant of roil, of the same meaning.
Idioms
be/get (all) riled up
- (especially North American English, informal)
to be or get very annoyed 十分生气；恼火