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Examples of roil
roil
The rice provides no nutrients and can roil the stomach, but they have no choice.
From the washingtonpost.com
And housing is fragile at the moment and phase-in would still roil real estate.
From the economist.com
If the protests drag on, the instability could continue to roil financial markets.
From the businessweek.com
The troubles of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac continued to roil the markets Thursday.
From the washingtontimes.com
Weather and construction can roil the sediments, causing monitoring levels to rise.
From the timesunion.com
A shapeless rustle hardens into a thrashing roil, and then just as easily subsides.
From the nytimes.com
Clouds roil over the White House in Washington on the morning of Sunday, Dec.
From the stltoday.com
There is not a situation to further roil the market, given the situation in Greece.
From the guardian.co.uk
Tensions roil under the surface that are seldom noticed by the city at large.
From the suntimes.com
- Churn: be agitated; "the sea was churning in the storm"
- Make turbid by stirring up the sediments of
- (roiled) annoyed: aroused to impatience or anger; "made an irritated gesture"; "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"
- (roiling) churning: (of a liquid) agitated vigorously; in a state of turbulence; "the river's roiling current"; "turbulent rapids"
- ROiL is a performance art troupe started in Portland, Maine now also based in Ithaca, New York and Baton Rouge, Louisiana. "ROiL" is not an acronym; it is a verb meaning "to render (water, wine, etc.) turbid by stirring up sediment"
- (Roiled) Governed by a French king. - Joseph Leff
- Verb - 1. to make (a liquid) cloudy, muddy, or unsettled by stirring up sediment 2. to stir up; agitate 3. to make angry or irritable; rile
