RILES

Burns up

• Aggravates

• Agitates

• Angers

• Angers, U.S. style

• Angers, with up

• Annoys

• Annoys, with up

• Bothers

• Bothers big-time

• Bugs

• Bugs to no end

• Disturbs

• Engages in rabble-rousing

• Gets all stirred up

• Gets in a lather

• Gets one's dander up

• Gets one's goat

• Gets to

• Gets upset

• Heats up

• Incenses

• Incites to pique

• Infuriates

• Inspires rancor, perhaps

• Irks

• Irritates

• John Barth's ___ Goat-Boy

• Makes angry

• Makes hopping mad

• Makes mad

• Miffs

• Needles

• Needles or nettles

• Peeves

• Pesters

• Pisses off

• Provokes

• Puts out

• Raises ire

• Rubs the wrong way

• Ruffles

• Ruffles feathers

• Steams up

• Stirs (up)

• Stirs the pot

• Stirs to anger

• Stirs to ire

• Tees off

• Tees off, so to speak

• Ticks off

• Vexes

• Vexes in Texas, etc.

• Vexes: Dial.

• Whips into a frenzy, with up

• Works (up)