roil
verb/rɔɪl/
/rɔɪl/
- [transitive] (North American English) (also rile British and North American English)roil somebody to annoy somebody or make them angry
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- [intransitive, transitive] (literary) (of a liquid, cloud, surface, etc.) to move quickly and violently in different directions; to make a liquid, cloud, surface, etc. move quickly and violently in different directions
- The waves roiled and crashed up against the side of the ship.
- The clouds roiled above in the dark sky.
- roil something Winds often roil the sea here.
- (figurative) The collapse of the mortgage sector has roiled markets.
- The minister was accused of roiling the political waters.
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