roil
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɔɪl/
rhymes: -ɔɪl
homophone: royal (certain accents)
Forms: form: roils
form: roiling
form: roiled
form: roiled
Etymology: Origin uncertain. Possibly from French or Middle French rouiller (“to rust, make muddy”), from Old French rouil (“mud, rust”), from Vulgar Latin *robicula, from Latin robigo (“rust, blight”)
Senses: examples: text: to roil wine, cider, etc, in casks or bottles
text: to roil a spring
text: dust storms roiling the skies
text: [of St Leonards in East Sussex in 1947] A sort of roiling mist seemed year-round to hold the town in its grip.
ref: 2015, David Hare, chapter 1, in The Blue Touch Paper:
synonyms: agitate
inturbidate
stir
stir up
qualifier: especially a liquid
glosses: To render turbid by stirring up the dregs or sediment of.
raw_tags: of a fluid
examples: text: That his friends should believe it, was what roiled him exceedingly.
ref: 1890, Roger North, Lives of the Norths:
text: […] and amid Musk’s sale of 10% of his Tesla stock, a process that roiled markets, cost him billions and should produce enough tax revenue to fund the Commerce Department for a year.
ref: 2021 December 13, Molly Ball, Jeffrey Kluger, Alejandro de la Garza, “Elon Musk: Person of the Year 2021”, in Time, archived from the original on 13 Dec 2021:
synonyms: word: irritate
word: rile
word: rile up
word: stir up
word: aggravate
word: annoy
word: rankle
word: ruffle
word: sting
word: antagonize
word: bother
word: disgruntle
word: botherate
word: bug
word: get
word: grate
word: burn up
word: bedevil
word: cheese off
word: devil
word: exasperate
word: frustrate
word: get up
word: grotch
word: hack off
word: hassle
word: irk
word: irritate
word: jazz
word: molest
word: mommick
word: nark
word: nerve
word: pee off
word: peeve
word: persecute
word: pique
word: piss off
word: provoke
word: rile
word: rile up
word: roil
word: storm
word: test someone's patience
word: tick off
word: trouble
word: try one's patience
word: vex
word: wind up
word: Idioms:
word: boil someone's piss
word: chap someone's hide
word: get on someone's nerves
word: get on someone's tits
word: get on someone's wick
word: get someone's back up
word: get someone's dander up
word: get someone's goat
word: get someone's Irish up
word: get someone's nanny
word: get someone's nanny-goat
word: get under one's goat
word: get under someone's skin
word: give someone the shits
word: grind one's gears
word: harsh one's mellow
word: put someone's back up
word: raise someone's hackles
word: rub someone the wrong way
word: rub up the wrong way
word: ruffle someone's feathers
word: tee off
word: torque off
glosses: To annoy; to make angry; to throw into discord.
raw_tags: of a person or group of people
examples: text: By noon, Brian's stomach had begun to roil and knot. He hurried down to the bathroom at the end of the hall in his stocking feet, closed the door, and vomited into the toilet bowl as quietly as he could.
ref: 1991, Stephen King, Needful Things:
text: Throughout the 1500s, the populace roiled over a constellation of grievances of which the forest emerged as a key focal point. The popular late Middle Ages fictional character Robin Hood, dressed in green to symbolize the forest, dodged fines for forest offenses and stole from the rich to give to the poor. But his appeal was painfully real and embodied the struggle over wood.
ref: 2006, Edwin Black, chapter 2, in Internal Combustion:
text: These videos are the stone truth. Quaking proof of insult, seasick funerals. Livestreamed or uploaded, or suppressed then suspiciously unearthed as found footage. Last week, the archive grew by two, and now the nation’s roiling.
ref: 2020 June 3, Wesley Morris, “The Videos That Rocked America. The Song That Knows Our Rage.”, in New York Times:
glosses: To bubble, seethe.
examples: text: The finale was a romp in which the entire troupe burst out of the bouldering cave and roiled along the walls.
ref: 1991, Climbing - Issues 127-129, page 34:
text: As artists they were exploratory; in Rose Colored Dance they performed in playful embrace, smelled each other's feet, and roiled in mischief, rolling on top of each other.
ref: 2017, Sondra Fraleigh, Tamah Nakamura, Hijikata Tatsumi and Ohno Kazuo:
text: When the children returned from school, Pip sat among them as they did their homework. He peeled children off the floor when they roiled in frustration and plucked cats from the furniture.
ref: 2019, Vita Murrow, High-Five to the Hero, page 78:
text: A school let out, teens in their miraculously white, pressed shirts and blue pants and skirts, surely having come that morning from crowded, dirt-floored huts without water. They roiled over the sidewalk and flowed around me, a sweaty, old-lady tourist in her long-sleeved, 50 SPF shirt, pants, and pastel hat – a lump in their path.
ref: 2020, Richard Blanco, Caridad Moro, Nikki Moustaki, Grabbed, page 58:
glosses: To romp or tumble.
Derived terms: roiler
roily