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Rile


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To render turbid or muddy; to stir up; to roil.
  • (v. t.) To stir up in feelings; to make angry; to vex.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In fact, it soon became clear that if there was anything designed to get Tony really riled, it was talk of God.
  • (2) We are Protestant Christians, so by sending monks to chant sutras they were trying to get us riled up,” a member of one Zhejiang church told Radio Free Asia , a US-funded news website.
  • (3) Gui Minhai: the strange disappearance of a publisher who riled China's elite Read more Five Hong Kong booksellers – Gui Minhai, Lee Bo, Lui Bo, Cheung Ji-ping and Lam Wing-kei – who specialised in books criticising China’s Communist party elite have vanished since October.
  • (4) Francesco Totti has escaped with a spell on the naughty step for goading Lazio fans in the wake of Sunday's Rome derby, but has been fined €10,000 for each thumb he pointed down in a bid to rile them up.
  • (5) Golly; so riled is Abrams that he has committed a Hollywood solecism – you never tell anyone not to come.
  • (6) How Spurs craved someone similarly streetwise 7 Tottenham Hotspur Hugo Lloris Wrongfooted by deflections for both Chelsea goals, with the reality he did well to deny Cahill and Fàbregas scant consolation 6 Kyle Walker Eager to push on down the flank but exposed by Hazard’s slippery running and not tight enough to Costa at Chelsea’s second 5 Chelsea old guard triumph but Spurs academy talent point to future | David Hytner Read more Eric Dier Riled by Costa from the moment they clashed five minutes in.
  • (7) How it must rile politicians that, while only 18% of the public believe them to tell the truth , and just 34% of us believe business leaders, trade union officials are trusted by 41%.
  • (8) The benefits system is due for review again in 2013, with the prospect of another round of strikes if the government riles performers and technicians.
  • (9) George Osborne has riled his Liberal Democrat colleagues by trying to take the credit for the increase (so far) in the starting point for income tax from £6,475 to £10,000, a notably popular policy that has lifted about 2 million people out of income tax altogether.
  • (10) He made his points firmly, but was careful to avoid sounding riled.
  • (11) For socialists, taxation has a moral element and the suspicion the wealthy were “getting away with it” riled my father in a way it did not a pragmatic one-nation Tory like me.
  • (12) Instead, what often counts in politics is the spectacle of people being riled by this or that example of clumsy tinkering, particularly if any proposed change has some symbolic resonance.
  • (13) The couple's definition of success has riled some readers, revolving, as it does, around the bald data of income and education levels.
  • (14) But it never dared to, for fear that Hamdan's risqué music would rile Mubarak-era authorities.
  • (15) Varoufakis, the academic-turned-politician who has riled his eurozone counterparts, said he would not remain finance minister on Monday if Greece voted yes.
  • (16) But just try not to retaliate too aggressively or get too riled … Like I've said before: On the whole people are 'good', lets concentrate on that."
  • (17) Her presence at the parade – while an obvious indication of the political reconciliation she is attempting to achieve – is sure to rile supporters and critics, many of whom question her political integrity and increasing closeness with a group that quashed dissent for nearly 50 years and has been accused of committing genocide against ethnic Rohingya Muslims.
  • (18) Hayward, who riled Barack Obama by saying the amount of crude tipped into the Gulf of Mexico since the 20 April explosion was relatively "tiny" and that he "wanted his life back", even though 11 people died in the explosion, will be replaced by Bob Dudley , a BP veteran who is currently overseeing the clean-up of the oil spill.
  • (19) And she believes the distinctive paint job is a provocative gesture that has riled neighbours.
  • (20) ­Pellegrini, riled by Mourinho's dash across his box, hardly offered a vote of confidence in his later mumbled assessment.

Ripe


Definition:

  • (n.) The bank of a river.
  • (superl.) Ready for reaping or gathering; having attained perfection; mature; -- said of fruits, seeds, etc.; as, ripe grain.
  • (superl.) Advanced to the state of fitness for use; mellow; as, ripe cheese; ripe wine.
  • (superl.) Having attained its full development; mature; perfected; consummate.
  • (superl.) Maturated or suppurated; ready to discharge; -- said of sores, tumors, etc.
  • (superl.) Ready for action or effect; prepared.
  • (superl.) Like ripened fruit in ruddiness and plumpness.
  • (superl.) Intoxicated.
  • (v. i.) To ripen; to grow ripe.
  • (v. t.) To mature; to ripen.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) 1200 examinations of sonographical demonstrable placental ripeness were done in 552 pregnant women.
  • (2) I found their remarks a little ripe, if mostly well argued, although Nicholson's characterisation of the characters' default mindset as "Brown people bad, American people good" rather misses the obvious retort: "They wanna kill me, I wanna live."
  • (3) President Hassan Rouhani , who is visiting New York to speak at the UN general assembly next week, said at a meeting with journalists and media executives on Friday that “conditions were ripe” for his administration to start implementing the agreement, struck in Vienna in July, by the end of the year.
  • (4) The amount of banana starch not hydrolyzed and absorbed from the human small intestine and therefore passing into the colon may be up to 8 times more than the NSP present in this food and depends on the state of ripeness when the fruit is eaten.
  • (5) 75 Patients were treated with Prostaglandin-F2 alpha-gel intracervical to ripe the cervix prior to first trimester abortion.
  • (6) These demographic realities define a policy issue ripe for study.
  • (7) Her main project is new girl Tai (the late Brittany Murphy) who arrives at school as a clumsy, unconfident "ugly duckling" ripe for making over – allowing the film to indulge in that wonderful 80s teen movie trope: the dressing up montage.
  • (8) It’s when we have untrusted heads of these old institutions that everything seems ripe for revolution – if someone has the guts and ingenuity to really go for it.
  • (9) I gaze at it across the street and, as if by magic, I ache with longing, just as I used to in the days when a trip here was the most enjoyable thing I could possibly imagine: when books were all I wanted, when I thought of them as pieces of ripe fruit, waiting to be peeled and devoured.
  • (10) Some on the left who want Brexit say that the time is not yet ripe.
  • (11) We think that, after a rather premature condemnation, the time is ripe for a reevaluation and a reevaluation of the ureterosigmoidostomy.
  • (12) The oogonia pass through seven maturation stages to form the ripe ova.
  • (13) Total lipid constituted 15% of the dry wt of ripe eggs, 70% of the total lipid being polar lipid with phosphatidylcholine (PC) accounting for almost 90% of the polar lipid.
  • (14) A child growing up in America witnesses 16,000 murders and 200,000 acts of violence by the time he or she reaches the ripe old age of 18.
  • (15) Lamicel produced a cervical dilatation and ripeness equal to the syntetic tent without MgSO4.
  • (16) "The issue is ripe in our country, given the experiences that we know of elsewhere," he added.
  • (17) There's only so much traipsing sodden hills one person can do; once your Pringles supply from the nearest point of civilisation has been depleted, and anyone with bones ripe for jumping carries the risk of a shared grandparent, it's a wonder more people don't while away the long nights with a spot of leisurely murder.
  • (18) I think the time is ripe to push these issues into London councils and the London Assembly .
  • (19) Music in hospitals, he argues, is an area ripe for further exploration.
  • (20) The relationship between disability in activities of daily living and age-related impairment of physical performance is especially ripe for study.

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