Rile vs. Wile
Difference Between Rile and Wile
Rile➦
To anger or irritate.
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Wile➦
A stratagem or trick intended to deceive or ensnare.
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Rile➦
To stir up (liquid); roil. See Usage Note at roil.
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Wile➦
A disarming or seductive manner, device, or procedure
the wiles of a skilled negotiator.
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Rile➦
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.
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Wile➦
To influence or lead by means of wiles; entice
“Could the Erl-king's Daughter have revealed herself to me ... she might have wiled me by the hand into the dimmest forests upon earth” (Thomas De Quincey).
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Rile➦
(in particular) To make angry.
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Wile➦
To pass (time) agreeably
wile away a Sunday afternoon.
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Rile➦
To render turbid or muddy; to stir up; to roil.
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Wile➦
A trick or stratagem practiced for ensnaring or deception; a sly, insidious artifice
He was seduced by her wiles.
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Rile➦
To stir up in feelings; to make angry; to vex.
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Wile➦
(transitive) To entice or lure.
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Rile➦
cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations;
Mosquitoes buzzing in my ear really bothers me
It irritates me that she never closes the door after she leaves
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Wile➦
misspelling of while
Here's a pleasant way to wile away the hours.
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Rile➦
make turbid by stirring up the sediments of
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Wile➦
A trick or stratagem practiced for insnaring or deception; a sly, insidious; artifice; a beguilement; an allurement.
Put on the whole armor of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.
Not more almighty to resist our might,Than wise to frustrate all our plots and wiles.
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Wile➦
To practice artifice upon; to deceive; to beguile; to allure.
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Wile➦
To draw or turn away, as by diversion; to while or while away; to cause to pass pleasantly.
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Wile➦
the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them)
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