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Infuriate vs Rile - What's the difference?

infuriate | rile |

As verbs the difference between infuriate and rile

is that infuriate is to make furious or mad with anger; to enrage while rile is to make angry.

As an adjective infuriate

is enraged, furious.

infuriate

English

Verb

(infuriat)
  • To make furious or mad with anger; to enrage

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    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Enraged, furious.
  • * 1929 , (Frederic Manning), The Middle Parts of Fortune , Vintage 2014, p. 336:
  • *:‘A'll not leave thee,’ said Weeper in an infuriate rage.
    • (Milton)
  • * Thomson
    • Inflamed beyond the most infuriate wrath.
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    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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