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roil

[ roil ]

verb (used with object)

  1. to render (water, wine, etc.) turbid by stirring up sediment.
  2. to disturb or disquiet; irritate; vex:

    to be roiled by a delay.

    Synonyms: rile, provoke, exasperate, ruffle, fret, annoy



verb (used without object)

  1. to move or proceed turbulently.

roil

/ rɔɪl /

verb

  1. tr to make (a liquid) cloudy or turbid by stirring up dregs or sediment
  2. intr (esp of a liquid) to be agitated or disturbed
  3. dialect.
    intr to be noisy or boisterous
  4. See rile
    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

First recorded in 1580–90; origin uncertain

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Word History and Origins

Origin of roil1

C16: of unknown origin; compare rile

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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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