Roil: alternatives and connections

To move with a violent, irregular action; as, the wind agitates the sea; to agitate water in a vessel.

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To urge; to persuade; to incite.

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To throw into disorder or confusion; to derange; to interrupt the settled state of; to excite from a state of rest.

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To cause to change place or posture in any manner; to set in motion; to carry, convey, draw, or push from one place to another; to impel; to stir; as…

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To to/s back and forth; to agitate; to disquiet.

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To make turbid, or muddy, as water.

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A small quantity of dirty standing water; a muddy plash; a small pool.

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To cause to revolve by turning over and over; to move by turning on an axis; to impel forward by causing to turn over and over on a supporting surfac…

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To decoct or prepare for food in hot liquid; to boil; as, to seethe flesh.

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To be agitated, or tumultuously moved, as a liquid by the generation and rising of bubbles of steam (or vapor), or of currents produced by heating it…

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A vessel in which milk or cream is stirred, beaten, or otherwise agitated (as by a plunging or revolving dasher) in order to separate the oily globul…

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To daub; to make dirty; to soil; to defile.

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To render turbid or muddy; to stir up; to roil.

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