different between roil vs rile

English

Etymology

Origin uncertain. Possibly from French or Middle French rouiller (“to rust, make muddy”), from Old French rouil (“mud, rust”), from Vulgar Latin *robicula, from Latin robigo (“rust, blight”)

Pronunciation

• (UK, General American) IPA^(key): /???l/
• Rhymes: -??l

Verb

roil (third-person singular simple present roils, present participle roiling, simple past and past participle roiled)

1. (transitive) To render turbid by stirring up the dregs or sediment of.

   Synonym: agitate
2. (transitive) To annoy; to make someone angry.

   Synonyms: irritate, rile

   • 1890, Roger North, Lives of the Norths

     That his friends should believe it, was what roiled him exceedingly.

3. (intransitive) To bubble, seethe.
4. (obsolete, intransitive) To wander; to roam.
5. (obsolete, Britain, dialect, intransitive) To romp.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Halliwell to this entry?)

Translations

Anagrams

• Loir, Lori, loir

Estonian

Noun

roil

1. adessive plural of roog

English

Etymology

From a dialectal pronunciation of roil.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a?l/
• Rhymes: -a?l

Verb

rile (third-person singular simple present riles, present participle riling, simple past and past participle riled)

1. to make angry
2. 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

• rilesome

Translations

Derived terms

• to get riled up - to become angry

Anagrams

• Iler, Irel., Lier, Reil, Riel, lier, lire, riel

Spanish

Verb

rile

1. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of rilarse.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of rilarse.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of rilarse.