Synonyms for roil
rɔɪlroil

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1. roilverb

   To annoy; to make someone angry.

   Synonyms:
   irritate

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1. churn, boil, moil, roilverb

   be agitated

   "the sea was churning in the storm"

   Synonyms:
   labour, dig, labor, boil, moil, seethe, rile, toil, grind, churn, travail, drudge

2. roil, rileverb

   make turbid by stirring up the sediments of

   Synonyms:
   boil, rile, devil, nettle, chafe, vex, irritate, churn, bother, annoy, rag, nark, get to, get at, moil, gravel

Matched Categories

1. • Move
   • Stir Up

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1. roilverb

   Synonyms:
   make turbid

2. roilverb

   Synonyms:
   [Colloquial.] vex, disturb, plague, irritate, worry, annoy, bother, molest

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1. roilverb

   Synonyms:
   make turbid, rile

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1. State John Kerry:

   It's not a coincidence that immediately prior to the civil war in Syria, the country experienced its worst drought on record. As many as 1.5 million people migrated from Syria's farms to its cities, intensifying the political unrest that was just beginning to roil and boil in the region.

2. John LaForge:

   People like the safety for now. What would roil them a little bit and shake people out of REITs is if China and the U.S. do a trade deal.

3. Justin Fabo:

   China has huge potential to roil markets as the nation navigates a difficult structural transition, asian trade, traditionally a bellwether for global growth, is in recession.

4. Oprah Winfrey:

   She was our conscience. Our seer. Our truth-teller, she was a magician with language, who understood the Power of words. She used them to roil us, to wake us, to educate us and help us grapple with our deepest wounds and try to comprehend them.