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Disgust vs Rile - What's the difference?

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Disgust is a related term of rile.


As verbs the difference between disgust and rile

is that disgust is to cause an intense dislike for something while rile is to make angry.

As a noun disgust

is an intense dislike or loathing someone feels for something bad or nasty.

disgust

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • To cause an intense dislike for something.
  • It disgusts me, to see her chew with her mouth open.
  • * 1874 , (Marcus Clarke), (For the Term of His Natural Life) Chapter V
  • It is impossible to convey, in words, any idea of the hideous phantasmagoria of shifting limbs and faces which moved through the evil-smelling twilight of this terrible prison-house. Callot might have drawn it, Dante might have suggested it, but a minute attempt to describe its horrors would but disgust . There are depths in humanity which one cannot explore, as there are mephitic caverns into which one dare not penetrate.

    Noun

    (wikipedia disgust) (-)
  • An intense dislike or loathing someone feels for something bad or nasty.
  • With an air of disgust , she stormed out of the room.

    rile

    English

    Verb

    (ril)
  • to make angry
  • *{{quote-news
  • , year=2011 , date=October 20 , author=Michael da Silva , title=Stoke 3 - 0 Macc Tel-Aviv , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=Riled by a decision that went against him, Ziv kicked his displaced boot at the assistant referee and, after a short consultation between the officials, he was given his marching orders and the loudest cheer of the night.}}
  • to stir or move from a state of calm or order
  • Money'' ''problems'' rile ''the underpaid worker every day .
    Mosquitoes buzzing in my ear really rile me.
    It riles me that she never closes the door after she leaves.

    Synonyms

    * aggravate * anger * annoy * irritate * vex

    Derived terms

    * to get riled up - to become angry

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