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Roil v. t. (past & past part. roiled; pres. part. roiling)

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.

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.

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"Roil" Quotes from Famous Books

... Break, ah break it out o' that! Break our starboard bower out, apeak, awash, and clear. Port—port she casts, with the harbour-roil beneath her foot, And that's the last o' bottom ...

— The Seven Seas • Rudyard Kipling

... to concede to others that same right to be human which they themselves exercise, whether they will or no, when things happen that smash the veneer of "gentleman" or "lady" like an eggshell under a plowboy's heel, and penetrate to and roil that unlovely human nature which is in us all. Criticism is supercilious, even when it is just; so, without criticism, the fact is recorded that Adelaide paced the floor and literally raved in her fury at this double-distilled, double treachery. The sense that she had lost the man she believed ...

— The Second Generation • David Graham Phillips

Words linked to "Roil" : move, vex, moil, stir up, disturb, churn, puddle, rile