Bile is a liquid produced by your liver which helps you to digest fat.
2. uncountable noun
Bile is the bad-smelling liquid that comes out of your mouth when you vomit with no food in your stomach.
3. uncountable noun
Bile is anger or bitterness towards someone or something.
[literary]
He aims his bile at religion, drugs, and politics.
Synonyms: bitterness, anger, hostility, resentment More Synonyms of bile
bile in British English1
(baɪl)
noun
1.
a bitter greenish to golden brown alkaline fluid secreted by the liver and stored in the gall bladder. It is discharged during digestion into the duodenum, where it aids the emulsification and absorption of fats
2.
irritability or peevishness
3. archaic
either of two bodily humours, one of which (black bile) was thought to cause melancholy and the other (yellow bile) anger
Word origin
C17: from French, from Latin bīlis, probably of Celtic origin; compare Welsh bustl bile
bile in British English2
(bəɪl)
verb
a Scot word for boil1
bile in American English
(baɪl)
noun
1.
the bitter, alkaline, yellow-brown or greenish fluid secreted by the liver and storedin the gallbladder: it is discharged into the duodenum and helps in digestion, esp.of fats
2.
a.
either of two bodily humors (black bile, or melancholy, and yellow bile, or choler) in ancient physiology
b.
bitterness; anger
Word origin
Fr < L bilis
Examples of 'bile' in a sentence
bile
IT'S weird, wacky and downright nasty, brimming with bile and anger.
The Sun (2016)
It helps the liver to release toxins through the bile ducts into the bowel.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
For all the bile and bitterness in the stands, some football songs still stir the soul.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
But no, we swapped a champagne reception for two meetings of bile and bitterness.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
And turns his bile into something beautiful in his finest hour of stand-up yet.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
He is wealthy and successful, a quality that always sets the bile ducts flowing.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
After vomiting bile, he was taken back to hospital.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
Vitamin D and bile acids are steroids.
Mayes, Adrienne The Dictionary of Nutritional Health (1986)
The soluble fibre binds to cholesterol and bile acids (which contain cholesterol) in your gut.
Wallace, Louise M & Bundy, Christine Coping with Angina (1990)
No need to shed a tear, but no need to vomit up bile, either.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
It was full of bile and anger, and it got huge laughs, but it was weirdly touching.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
Because we can't act normally any more, we vent our anger and bile on the sports pitch.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
And then I get on with my morning, a seething mass of bitterness and bile.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
Word lists with
bile
Celtic
In other languages
bile
British English: bile NOUN
Bile is a liquid produced by your liver which helps you to digest fat.
American English: bile
Brazilian Portuguese: bílis
Chinese: 胆汁
European Spanish: bilis
French: bile
German: Galle
Italian: bile
Japanese: 胆液
Korean: 담즙
European Portuguese: bílis
Latin American Spanish: bilis
(noun)
Definition
irritability or peevishness
He aims his bile at religion, drugs and politics.
Synonyms
bitterness
I still feel bitterness and anger.
anger
He cried with anger and frustration.
hostility
She looked at Ron with open hostility.
resentment
Rigid policing can only feed resentment and undermine confidence.
animosity
There's a long history of animosity between the two nations.
venom
There was no mistaking the venom in his voice.
irritability
Patients usually suffer from memory loss and irritability.
spleen
There were other targets for his spleen.
acrimony
The council's first meeting ended in acrimony.
pique
nastiness
rancour
`That's too bad,' he said without rancour.
virulence
asperity
`I told you he had no idea,' she remarked with some asperity.
ill humour
irascibility
peevishness
churlishness
Additional synonyms
in the sense of acrimony
Definition
bitterness and resentment felt about something
The council's first meeting ended in acrimony.
Synonyms
bitterness,
harshness,
rancour,
ill will,
virulence,
sarcasm,
pungency,
asperity,
tartness,
astringency,
irascibility,
peevishness,
acerbity,
churlishness,
trenchancy,
mordancy,
spleen
in the sense of anger
Definition
a feeling of extreme annoyance or displeasure
He cried with anger and frustration.
Synonyms
rage,
passion,
outrage,
temper,
fury,
resentment,
irritation,
wrath,
indignation,
annoyance,
agitation,
ire,
antagonism,
displeasure,
exasperation,
irritability,
spleen,
pique,
ill temper,
vehemence,
vexation,
high dudgeon,
ill humour,
choler,
be on your back (slang)
in the sense of animosity
Definition
a powerful dislike or hostility
There's a long history of animosity between the two nations.