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  • verb Present participle of rile.

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Examples

  • I was kinda afraid that Palin riling up 20,000 conservatives in the desert would bring an attack from the Obama brownshirts.

    The CNN estimate of the Searchlight Rally. | RedState 2010

  • Still, Gruden seemed to like every draft pick, suggesting that maybe there's no point in riling up players he might end up coaching — or coaching against.

    Draft days were breeze for Jon Gruden 2010

  • In a statement, Citizens United called the riling "a tremendous victory, not only for Citizens United but for every American who desires to participate in the political process."

    AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed 2010

  • Her partner, who had been hovering near, now claimed and bore her unwillingly away, for next to being friends with Bertie was the pleasure of "riling" him by smiling icyness.

    Bluebell A Novel Mrs. George Croft Huddleston

  • But at the very moment that I was exalting my advantage and joying in it in secret, there was a muddy undercurrent of discomfort "riling" the deeps of my happiness, and that was -- the having to hear my name bandied about in familiar connection with those of such people.

    Sketches New And Old Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 1922

  • But at the very moment that I was exalting my advantage and joying in it in secret, there was a muddy undercurrent of discomfort "riling" the deeps of my happiness, and that was -- the having to hear my name bandied about in familiar connection with those of such people.

    Sketches New and Old, Part 7. Mark Twain 1872

  • But at the very moment that I was exalting my advantage and joying in it in secret, there was a muddy undercurrent of discomfort "riling" the deeps of my happiness, and that was -- the having to hear my name bandied about in familiar connection with those of such people.

    Sketches New and Old Mark Twain 1872

  • I do, however, see the high possibility for violent consequences from the kind of riling rhetoric that will be the event's biggest feature.

    Politics Jenn Kepka 2010

  • I do, however, see the high possibility for violent consequences from the kind of riling rhetoric that will be the event's biggest feature.

    Politics Jenn Kepka 2010

  • As for "riling" hahaha you cannot. unlike u, i am beholden to none.

    Yahoo! Buzz US: Top Stories 2008

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