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Roiled   /rɔɪld/   Listen
verb
Roil  v. t.  (past & past part. roiled; pres. part. roiling)  
1.
To render turbid by stirring up the dregs or sediment of; as, to roil wine, cider, etc., in casks or bottles; to roil a spring.
2.
To disturb, as the temper; to ruffle the temper of; to rouse the passion of resentment in; to perplex. "That his friends should believe it, was what roiled him (Judge Jeffreys) exceedingly." Note: Provincial in England and colloquial in the United States. A commoner, but less approved, form is rile.


Roil  v. i.  
1.
To wander; to roam. (Obs.)
2.
To romp. (Prov. Eng.)





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"Roiled" Quotes from Famous Books



... it into the Prophet's own hands—" She drew out a pencil and wrote a few enigmatical words. "Give it into his own hands; and I can promise you that your reward will be greater than you think." With a rapid movement, she roiled up the paper and held it out ...
— The Mystics - A Novel • Katherine Cecil Thurston
... shut the door, and they heard his voice immediately uplifted in prayer. They waited a little, and the sound roiled steadily on. Sir Walter then bade Masters extinguish all the lights and send the household to bed, though the time was ...
— The Grey Room • Eden Phillpotts
... in his passions, he feels his passion approaching, he loves to fish in roiled waters. Though that dragon cannot sting the vitals of the elect mortally, yet that Beelzebub can fly-blow ...
— History of American Literature • Reuben Post Halleck
... into the darkness. Even at the end of the twenty-foot plunge the body in striking made almost no sound at all, for, as Waggoner afterward figured, it must have struck against a mass of shore ice, then instantly to slide off, with scarcely a splash, into the roiled yellow waters beyond. ...
— The Thunders of Silence • Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb
... boss won his most trusted fellows to his plan, for he was a youth of power, and besides they had all been roiled by the grizzled, crusty old official, and were quite ready to take a hand in ...
— They of the High Trails • Hamlin Garland


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