roil – מילון אנגלי-אנגלי
roil
v.
make turbid, make muddy; annoy, irritate
roil
Verb
1. be agitated; "the sea was churning in the storm"
(synonym) churn, boil, moil
(hypernym) move
(hyponym) seethe, roll
2. make turbid by stirring up the sediments of
(synonym) rile
(hypernym) agitate, vex, disturb, commove, shake up, stir up, raise up
(hyponym) muddle, puddle
Roil
(v.)
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.
(v.)
To disturb, as the temper; to ruffle the temper of; to rouse the passion of resentment in; to perplex.
(v. i.)
To wander; to roam.
(v. i.)
To romp.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
About
roil
To make muddy by stirring or to disturb sediment
roil
Synonyms and related words:
adiaphanousness, aggravate, agitate, agitation, annoy, arouse, badger, bait, be at, be turbulent, beat, beat up, bedevil, beset, bluster, bobbery, boil, boiling, bother, bristle, brouhaha, brown off, bug, bullyrag, burn up, bustle, carouse, chafe, chivy, churn, churn up, cloudiness, commotion, conturbation, convulse, create a disturbance, create a riot, cut loose, darkness, devil, dimness, disarrange, discompose, discomposure, disorder, disquiet, disquietude, distemper, disturb, disturbance, dog, ebullition, embitter, embroilment, exasperate, excite, excitement, exercise, fash, ferment, fermentation, fever, feverishness, fidgets, flap, flurry, fluster, flutteration, foment, fret, fume, fuss, get, go berserk, gripe, harass, harry, heckle, hector, hound, hubbub, huff, hurly-burly, imperviousness to light, incense, inflame, inquietude, intransparency, irk, irritate, jitters, jumpiness, maelstrom, make a commotion, make an ado, make trouble, malaise, miff, mill, mill around, moil, molest, nag, needle, nerviness, nervosity, nervousness, nettle, nudzh, obscurity, opacity, opaque, opaqueness, paddle, peeve, persecute, perturb, perturbate, perturbation, pester, pick on, pique, plague, pluck the beard, pother, provoke, raise a ruckus, raise a rumpus, raise a storm, rankle, restlessness, ride, rile, riot, ripple, roiledness, roister, roughen, rout, row, ruffle, rumple, run amok, run riot, run wild, seethe, seething, set up, shake, shake up, stir, stir the blood, stir up, swirl, tease, to-do, torment, trepidation, trepidity, trouble, try the patience, tumult, tumultuation, turbidity, turbidness, turbulence, turmoil, tweak the nose, twitter, unease, unrest, upset, vex, whip, whip up, whisk, work up, worry
Source: Moby Thesaurus, which is part of the
Moby Project created by Grady Ward. In 1996 Grady Ward placed this thesaurus in the public domain.