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Webster 1913 Edition
Roil
Roil
,Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Roiled
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Roiling
.] 1.
To render turbid by stirring up the dregs or sediment of;
as, to
, in casks or bottles; to roil a spring. roil
wine, cider, etc. 2.
To disturb, as the temper; to ruffle the temper of; to rouse the passion of resentment in; to perplex.
That his friends should believe it, was what
roiled
him [Judge Jeffreys] exceedingly. R. North.
☞ Provincial in England and colloquial in the United States. A commoner, but less approved, form is rile.
Roil
,Verb.
I.
1.
To wander; to roam.
[Obs.]
2.
To romp.
[Prov. Eng.]
Halliwell.
Webster 1828 Edition
Roil
ROIL
, v.t.1.
To render turbid by stirring up the dregs or sediment; as, to roil wine, cider or other liquor in casks or bottles.2.
To excite some degree of anger; to disturb the passion of resentment. [These senses are in common use in New England, and locally in England.]3.
To perplex. [Local in England.]Definition 2024
roil
roil
English
Verb
roil (third-person singular simple present roils, present participle roiling, simple past and past participle roiled)
- To render turbid by stirring up the dregs or sediment of
- To roil wine, cider, etc, in casks or bottles 2015, David Hare, The Blue Touch Paper:
- (of St Leonards in East Sussex in 1947) A sort of roiling mist seemed year-round to hold the town in its grip.
- To roil a spring.
- To roil wine, cider, etc, in casks or bottles
- To annoy; to make someone angry.
- R. North
- That his friends should believe it, was what roiled him exceedingly.
- R. North
- (intransitive) To bubble, seethe.
- 2006, Edwin Black, chapter 2, in Internal Combustion:
- 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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- (obsolete, intransitive) To wander; to roam.
- (obsolete, Britain, dialect, intransitive) To romp.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Halliwell to this entry?)
Synonyms
- (To annoy, someone angry): irritate
Translations
render turbid
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to annoy