ROIL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does roil mean? 

• ROIL (verb)
  The verb ROIL has 2 senses:

1. be agitated

2. make turbid by stirring up the sediments of

  Familiarity information: ROIL used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ROIL (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they roil    ... he / she / it roils   
Past simple: roiled   
Past participle: roiled   
-ing form: roiling   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Be agitated

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

boil; churn; moil; roil

Context example:

the sea was churning in the storm

Hypernyms (to "roil" is one way to...):

move (move so as to change position, perform a nontranslational motion)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "roil"):

roll; seethe (boil vigorously)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Sentence example:

The water roils

Sense 2

Meaning:

Make turbid by stirring up the sediments of

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

rile; roil

Hypernyms (to "roil" is one way to...):

agitate; commove; disturb; raise up; shake up; stir up; vex (change the arrangement or position of)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "roil"):

muddle; puddle (make into a puddle)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

 Context examples 

Small stars, on the other hand, consist almost entirely of convective, roiling regions.

(Kepler Watches Stellar Dancers in the Pleiades Cluster, NASA)