Usually means: Provoke, irritate, or upset someone.
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We found 31 dictionaries that define the word rile:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. rile: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. rile: Merriam-Webster
  3. rile: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. rile: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. rile: Collins English Dictionary
  6. rile: Vocabulary.com
  7. Rile, rile: Wordnik
  8. rile: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. rile: Wiktionary
  10. rile: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. rile: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. rile: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Rile, rile: Dictionary.com
  14. rile: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. rile: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Rile: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. rile: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. rile: Rhymezone
  19. Rile: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. RILE: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  21. Rile: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. rile: FreeDictionary.org
  23. rile: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. rile: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  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

(Note: See riled as well.)

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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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