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Roil   /rɔɪl/   Listen
Roil

verb
(past & past part. roiled; pres. part. roiling)
1.
Be agitated.  Synonyms: boil, churn, moil.
2.
Make turbid by stirring up the sediments of.  Synonym: rile.






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"Roil" Quotes from Famous Books



... her I secretly designed In that Old World so strangely beautiful To us the disinherited of eld,— A day at Chartres, with no soul beside To roil with pedant prate my joy serene 180 And make the minster shy of confidence. I went, and, with the Saxon's pious care, First ordered dinner at the pea-green inn, The flies and I its only customers. Eluding these, I loitered through the town, ...
— The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell • James Lowell

... mout be a-makin' a false play, but—durn the critter anyway, Shane! He ain't got no more backbone than a wet string! He's been in a hell of a stew ever since we got here about this storm a-brewing and it's beginnin' to roil me just havin' him pesticate around. ...
— Where the Sun Swings North • Barrett Willoughby



Words linked to "Roil" :   disturb, shake up, raise up, vex, churn, puddle, commove, roll, move, stir up, muddle, agitate, seethe



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