See roil in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"text": "to roil wine, cider, etc, in casks or bottles",
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"text": "to roil a spring",
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"text": "dust storms roiling the skies",
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"ref": "2015, David Hare, chapter 1, in The Blue Touch Paper:",
"text": "[of St Leonards in East Sussex in 1947] A sort of roiling mist seemed year-round to hold the town in its grip.",
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"sense": "render turbid",
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"sense": "render turbid",
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"sense": "render turbid",
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"sense": "render turbid",
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"ref": "1890, Roger North, Lives of the Norths:",
"text": "That his friends should believe it, was what roiled him exceedingly.",
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"ref": "2021 December 13, Molly Ball, Jeffrey Kluger, Alejandro de la Garza, “Elon Musk: Person of the Year 2021”, in Time:",
"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.",
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"ref": "1991, Stephen King, Needful Things:",
"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.",
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"ref": "2006, Edwin Black, chapter 2, in Internal Combustion:",
"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.",
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{
"ref": "2020 June 3, Wesley Morris, “The Videos That Rocked America. The Song That Knows Our Rage.”, in New York Times:",
"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.",
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"ref": "1991, Climbing - Issues 127-129, page 34:",
"text": "The finale was a romp in which the entire troupe burst out of the bouldering cave and roiled along the walls.",
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"ref": "2017, Sondra Fraleigh, Tamah Nakamura, Hijikata Tatsumi and Ohno Kazuo:",
"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.",
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{
"ref": "2019, Vita Murrow, High-Five to the Hero, page 78:",
"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.",
"type": "quote"
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"ref": "2020, Richard Blanco, Caridad Moro, Nikki Moustaki, Grabbed, page 58:",
"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.",
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"(intransitive) To romp."
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"ref": "1890, Roger North, Lives of the Norths:",
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"ref": "2021 December 13, Molly Ball, Jeffrey Kluger, Alejandro de la Garza, “Elon Musk: Person of the Year 2021”, in Time:",
"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.",
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"word": "rile up"
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{
"word": "stir up"
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"word": "annoy"
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"ref": "1991, Stephen King, Needful Things:",
"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.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2006, Edwin Black, chapter 2, in Internal Combustion:",
"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.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2020 June 3, Wesley Morris, “The Videos That Rocked America. The Song That Knows Our Rage.”, in New York Times:",
"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.",
"type": "quote"
}
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"To bubble, seethe."
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"(intransitive) To bubble, seethe."
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"intransitive"
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"glosses": [
"To wander; to roam."
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[
"roam",
"roam"
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"(obsolete, intransitive) To wander; to roam."
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"intransitive",
"obsolete"
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"English terms with quotations"
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{
"ref": "1991, Climbing - Issues 127-129, page 34:",
"text": "The finale was a romp in which the entire troupe burst out of the bouldering cave and roiled along the walls.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2017, Sondra Fraleigh, Tamah Nakamura, Hijikata Tatsumi and Ohno Kazuo:",
"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.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2019, Vita Murrow, High-Five to the Hero, page 78:",
"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.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2020, Richard Blanco, Caridad Moro, Nikki Moustaki, Grabbed, page 58:",
"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.",
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"To romp."
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"(intransitive) To romp."
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"intransitive"
]
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"UK"
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{
"code": "hy",
"lang": "Armenian",
"roman": "pġtorel",
"sense": "render turbid",
"word": "պղտորել"
},
{
"code": "hy",
"lang": "Armenian",
"roman": "tʻapʻaharel",
"sense": "render turbid",
"word": "թափահարել"
},
{
"code": "hy",
"lang": "Armenian",
"roman": "xaṙnakel",
"sense": "render turbid",
"word": "խառնակել"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "mǎtja",
"sense": "render turbid",
"word": "мътя"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "razmǎtvam",
"sense": "render turbid",
"word": "размътвам"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "render turbid",
"word": "徹底攪拌"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "chèdǐjiǎobàn",
"sense": "render turbid",
"word": "彻底搅拌"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "render turbid",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "rozvířit"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "render turbid",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "zvířit"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "render turbid",
"word": "vertroebelen"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "render turbid",
"word": "hämmentää"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "render turbid",
"word": "samentaa"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "render turbid",
"word": "troubler"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "render turbid",
"word": "trüben"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "render turbid",
"word": "felkavar"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "render turbid",
"word": "intorbidare"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "render turbid",
"word": "rendere torbido"
},
{
"alt": "にごらせる",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "nigoraseru",
"sense": "render turbid",
"word": "濁らせる"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "render turbid",
"word": "turvar"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "render turbid",
"word": "turbar"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "mutítʹ",
"sense": "render turbid",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "мути́ть"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "vzmutítʹ",
"sense": "render turbid",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "взмути́ть"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "zamutítʹ",
"sense": "render turbid",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "замути́ть"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "vzbáltyvatʹ",
"sense": "render turbid",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "взба́лтывать"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "vzboltátʹ",
"sense": "render turbid",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "взболта́ть"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "render turbid",
"word": "enturbiar"
},
{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "render turbid",
"word": "khuấy"
},
{
"code": "hy",
"lang": "Armenian",
"roman": "grgṙel",
"sense": "to annoy",
"word": "գրգռել"
},
{
"code": "hy",
"lang": "Armenian",
"roman": "ǰġaynacʻnel",
"sense": "to annoy",
"word": "ջղայնացնել"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "draznja",
"sense": "to annoy",
"word": "дразня"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "to annoy",
"word": "惹怒"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to annoy",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "rozvířit"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to annoy",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "rozbouřit"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to annoy",
"word": "storen"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to annoy",
"word": "ergeren"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to annoy",
"word": "kwaad maken"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to annoy",
"word": "ärsyttää"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to annoy",
"word": "énerver"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to annoy",
"word": "irriter"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to annoy",
"word": "fâcher"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to annoy",
"word": "ärgern"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to annoy",
"word": "irritar"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to annoy",
"word": "incomodar"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to annoy",
"word": "importunar"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "to annoy",
"word": "enerva"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "to annoy",
"word": "irita"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "to annoy",
"word": "supăra"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "razdražátʹ",
"sense": "to annoy",
"word": "раздража́ть"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "serdítʹ",
"sense": "to annoy",
"word": "серди́ть"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to annoy",
"word": "molestar"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to annoy",
"word": "enfurecer"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to annoy",
"word": "irritera"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to annoy",
"word": "reta upp"
},
{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "to annoy",
"word": "chọc tức"
}
],
"word": "roil"
}
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