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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



... a fright," said Kitty standing up and talking half to herself and half for the benefit of the head-mistress. "Crying always spoils me. Now, I knew a girl at home, and the more she cried the prettier she got. She used to let her tears roil down her cheeks in great drops, and never attempted to wipe them away, and her nose never got red, and her eyes only got bigger and quite dewy. Now, as to me when ...
— Wild Kitty • L. T. Meade



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



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