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roil

verb as in irritate

Strongest matches

Weak match

verb as in upset

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As the wind began to roar and the bay started to roil, Madison decided to flee.

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It’s all designed to make our stomachs roil, and it definitely does.

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Curbing the central bank’s ability to set interest rates without direct White House influence would be legally and politically tricky, and tinkering with the Fed so overtly could roil the very stock markets that Mr. Trump has frequently used as a yardstick for his success.

This boiling region is called the "convection zone," where layers and plumes of plasma roil and flow.

Mr. Biden’s address also comes as protests against Israel’s war in Gaza roil college campuses, with students demanding that the Biden administration stop sending weapons to Israel.

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

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