Rile vs Scrap - What's the difference?
rile | scrap |
to make angry
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to stir or move from a state of calm or order
A (small) piece; a fragment; a detached, incomplete portion.
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(usually, in the plural) Leftover food.
Discarded material (especially metal), junk.
(ethnic slur, offensive) A Hispanic criminal, especially a Mexican or one affiliated to the Norte gang.
The crisp substance that remains after drying out animal fat.
To discard.
(of a project or plan) To stop working on indefinitely.
To scrapbook; to create scrapbooks.
To dispose of at a scrapyard.
To make into scrap.
to fight
As verbs the difference between rile and scrap
is that rile is to make angry while scrap is to discard or scrap can be to fight.As a noun scrap is
a (small) piece; a fragment; a detached, incomplete portion or scrap can be a fight, tussle, skirmish.rile
English
Verb
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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.
Synonyms
* aggravate * anger * annoy * irritate * vexDerived terms
* to get riled up - to become angryAnagrams
* * *scrap
English
Etymology 1
(etyl) scrappe, from (etyl) skrap, fromNoun
(en noun)- I have no materials — not a scrap .
- I found a scrap of cloth to patch the hole.
- Give the scraps to the dogs and watch them fight.
- That car isn't good for anything but scrap .
- pork scraps