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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
Other Words From
- un·roiled adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of roil1
Word History and Origins
Origin of roil1
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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