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roil
/ rɔɪl /
verb
- tr to make (a liquid) cloudy or turbid by stirring up dregs or sediment
- intr (esp of a liquid) to be agitated or disturbed
- dialect.intr to be noisy or boisterous
- tr another word (now rare) for rile
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- un·roiled adjective
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Word History and Origins
Origin of roil1
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Word History and Origins
Origin of roil1
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Example Sentences
And contemporaneous observers predicted that South Africa would fracture, that a civil war would roil for the next decade.
Like it or not, ethnicity, assimilation and wages are the same the currents that roil immigration.
A year after the fall of Col. Muammar Gaddafi, violence continues to roil Libya, heightening fears that the revolution could fail.
The poet Mary Oliver tells us to row, row into the swirl and roil.
And markets in the U.K., Germany, France, Spain, Japan, and China continue to roil.
So saying, he drew a thick roil of documents from beneath his pillow, and placed it in his son's hands.
The house being near the head, there will not water enough get into the spring, in any storm, to roil the water.
He said boast an roil, an he meant roast an boil em, didnt he?
There we should find the slanderous Blacow, and at the head of the muster-roil might be placed Slop.
I know you told me not to roil round and so forth, but I knew you didn't mean it.
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