The Clue
Heat up (4 letter answer)
The Answer
RILE
Tags
Notes
The answer RILE is seen frequently, appearing about once every 70 puzzles.
Related Clues
Agitate
Annoy
Bug
Chafe
Disturb
Exasperate
Get to
Irritate
Madden
Miff
Nettle
Pique
Stir
Vex
Anger, with "up"
Honk off
Raise hackles
Stir (up)
Stir up
Tick off
Get one's goat
Get to, so to speak
Provoke Pappy Yokum
Raise one's hackles
Rub the wrong way
Ruffle one's feathers
Cause one to get steamed up
Cause heat under the collar
Get one's dander up
Get under one's skin
Definition
RILE as a verb:
1. (annoy, rag, get to, bother, get at, irritate, rile, nark, nettle, gravel, vex, chafe, devil) = 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"
2. (roil, rile) = make turbid by stirring up the sediments of