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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. tr another word (now rare) for rile
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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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

The score roils with melodic drama in the film’s prologue, which vibrantly depicts a tense heist to steal the titular piano under the cover of darkness and a Fourth of July fireworks show in Mississippi.

Rampant cord-cutting has roiled the television business and linear cable channels — once a mighty draw for couch-potato viewing — have become endangered species.

“There are incredible scenes where it’s like an iceberg, you’re just seeing the top, but there’s a lot roiling below,” she says.

Shasta County, which has been roiled by a far-right-insurgency, will vote in a crucial supervisor’s race even as problems emerge with its new voting machines.

But she has also emerged as an often lonely voice on the Board of Supervisors against a far-right insurgency that has roiled her county.

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