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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



... 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

... into the darkness. Even at the end of the twenty-foot plunge the body in striking made almost no sound at all, for, as Waggoner afterward figured, it must have struck against a mass of shore ice, then instantly to slide off, with scarcely a splash, into the roiled yellow waters beyond. ...
— The Thunders of Silence • Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb

... almost intolerable. Even the toughened old scout was compelled to shelter himself as best he could from its intolerable rays, by seeking the scant shadow of jutting points of the rock. Ned Chadmund suffered much, and the roiled and warm water in the old canteen was quaffed again, even though they were compelled to tip it more and more, until, toward the close of the day, Dick held it mouth downward, and showed that ...
— Through Apache Lands • R. H. Jayne



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