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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

... varacity that this singlar story of rewmantic love, absobbing pashn, and likewise of GENTEEL LIFE, is, in the main fax, TREW. The suckmstanzas I elude to, ocurd in the rain of our presnt Gratious Madjisty and her beluvd and roil Concert ...

— Burlesques • William Makepeace Thackeray

... of the spring make a tight fence two feet high, and it will turn aside, and cause to run around the spring, all the water that may flow down the rise above in time of rains. The house being near the head, there will not water enough get into the spring, in any storm, to roil the water. On the side of the boxes where the water escapes should be wire-cloth, so fine as not to allow the eggs to pass through. Such an apparatus will be perfect. This great care is only necessary for trout. All other fish worthy of cultivation, will only need spawning-beds on ...

— Soil Culture • J. H. Walden

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