Dictionary Definition
roil
Verb
2 make turbid by stirring up the sediments of
[syn: rile]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɔɪl
Verb
Translations
- Italian: intorbidare
Synonyms, Antonyms 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