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roil

verb as in irritate

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verb as in upset

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The roiling mass of convection, or shower and thunderstorm activity, has recently acquired more spin, an indication that a center of low pressure is developing.

The most significant is that it would stabilize part of the interior against convective heat, which otherwise would roil Saturn’s insides with turbulence.

Videos produced by Becher’s team show exactly how air comes out of different instruments, in what looks like roiling puffs of smoke.

Neither is absorbing blame for some of the quality-of-life issues roiling California, like homelessness and energy costs.

Smith’s comments about Ohtani and the blowback to them came a little more than a week after ESPN was roiled by a leaked video of Rachel Nichols, a host of the network’s NBA coverage, making disparaging comments about colleague Maria Taylor.

And contemporaneous observers predicted that South Africa would fracture, that a civil war would roil for the next decade.

Like it or not, ethnicity, assimilation and wages are the same the currents that roil immigration.

A year after the fall of Col. Muammar Gaddafi, violence continues to roil Libya, heightening fears that the revolution could fail.

The poet Mary Oliver tells us to row, row into the swirl and roil.

And markets in the U.K., Germany, France, Spain, Japan, and China continue to roil.

So saying, he drew a thick roil of documents from beneath his pillow, and placed it in his son's hands.

The house being near the head, there will not water enough get into the spring, in any storm, to roil the water.

He said boast an roil, an he meant roast an boil em, didnt he?

There we should find the slanderous Blacow, and at the head of the muster-roil might be placed Slop.

I know you told me not to roil round and so forth, but I knew you didn't mean it.

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On this page you'll find 47 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to roil, such as: disturb, rile, agitate, annoy, bother, and displease.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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