Verb

(ruffl)

To make a ruffle in; to curl or flute, as an edge of fabric.

Ruffle the end of the cuff.

To disturb; especially, to cause to flutter.

The wind ruffled the papers.

Her sudden volley of insults ruffled his composure.

* I. Taylor

the fantastic revelries that so often ruffled the placid bosom of the Nile

* Sir W. Hamilton

These ruffle the tranquillity of the mind.

* Dryden

She smoothed the ruffled seas.

* Tennyson

But, ever after, the small violence done / Rankled in him and ruffled all his heart.

To grow rough, boisterous, or turbulent.

* Shakespeare

The night comes on, and the bleak winds / Do sorely ruffle .

To become disordered; to play loosely; to flutter.

* Dryden

On his right shoulder his thick mane reclined, / Ruffles at speed, and dances in the wind.

To be rough; to jar; to be in contention; hence, to put on airs; to swagger.

* Francis Bacon

They would ruffle with jurors.

* Sir Walter Scott

gallants who ruffled in silk and embroidery

To make into a ruff; to draw or contract into puckers, plaits, or folds; to wrinkle.

To erect in a ruff, as feathers.

* Tennyson

[The swan] ruffles her pure cold plume.

(military) To beat with the ruff or ruffle, as a drum.

To throw together in a disorderly manner.

* Chapman

I ruffled up fallen leaves in heap.

Verb

(ril)

to make angry

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, 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.