Infuriate vs Rile - What's the difference?
infuriate | rile |
To make furious or mad with anger; to enrage
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.
* Thomson
to make angry
*{{quote-news
, year=2011
, date=October 20
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, title=Stoke 3 - 0 Macc Tel-Aviv
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to stir or move from a state of calm or order
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
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(en adjective)- (Milton)
- Inflamed beyond the most infuriate wrath.
rile
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- 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.