Riled vs Ailed - What's the difference?
riled | ailed |
(rile)
to make angry
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to stir or move from a state of calm or order
(ail)
(obsolete) Painful; troublesome.
To cause to suffer; to trouble, afflict. (Now chiefly in interrogative or indefinite constructions.)
* Bible, Genesis xxi. 17
* 2011 , "Connubial bliss in America", The Economist :
To be ill; to suffer; to be troubled.
* Richardson
As verbs the difference between riled and ailed
is that riled is (rile) while ailed is (ail).riled
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*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.
Synonyms
* aggravate * anger * annoy * irritate * vexDerived terms
* to get riled up - to become angryAnagrams
* * *ailed
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*ail
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Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), (m), from (etyl) .Adjective
(en-adj)Etymology 2
From (etyl) .Verb
(en verb)- Have some chicken soup. It's good for what ails you.
- What aileth thee, Hagar?
- Not content with having in 1996 put a Defence of Marriage Act (DOMA) on the statue book, Congress has now begun to hold hearings on a Respect for Marriage Act. Defended, respected: what could possibly ail marriage in America?
- When he ails ever so little he is so peevish.
