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Roiled   /rɔɪld/   Listen
Roiled

adjective
1.
Aroused to impatience or anger.  Synonyms: annoyed, irritated, miffed, nettled, peeved, pissed, pissed off, riled, steamed, stung.  "Feeling nettled from the constant teasing" , "Peeved about being left out" , "Felt really pissed at her snootiness" , "Riled no end by his lies" , "Roiled by the delay"
2.
(of a liquid) agitated vigorously; in a state of turbulence.  Synonyms: churning, roiling, roily, turbulent.  "Turbulent rapids"


Roil

verb
(past & past part. roiled; pres. part. roiling)
1.
Be agitated.  Synonyms: boil, churn, moil.
2.
Make turbid by stirring up the sediments of.  Synonym: rile.





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"Roiled" Quotes from Famous Books



... he noted some sort of an instrument swinging from a hook on a carline. He investigated. It was a makeshift barometer, the advertising gift of a yeast company. The contents of its tube were roiled to the height of the mark which was ...
— Blow The Man Down - A Romance Of The Coast - 1916 • Holman Day
... it into the Prophet's own hands—" She drew out a pencil and wrote a few enigmatical words. "Give it into his own hands; and I can promise you that your reward will be greater than you think." With a rapid movement, she roiled up the paper and held it out ...
— The Mystics - A Novel • Katherine Cecil Thurston
... shut the door, and they heard his voice immediately uplifted in prayer. They waited a little, and the sound roiled steadily on. Sir Walter then bade Masters extinguish all the lights and send the household to bed, though the time was ...
— The Grey Room • Eden Phillpotts
... in his passions, he feels his passion approaching, he loves to fish in roiled waters. Though that dragon cannot sting the vitals of the elect mortally, yet that Beelzebub can fly-blow ...
— History of American Literature • Reuben Post Halleck
... boss won his most trusted fellows to his plan, for he was a youth of power, and besides they had all been roiled by the grizzled, crusty old official, and were quite ready to take a hand in ...
— They of the High Trails • Hamlin Garland


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