Synonyms of the word roil


ROILAGITATE - BOIL - CHURN - COMMOVE - DISTURB - MOIL - MOVE - RILE - VEX

roil

  • v. To render turbid by stirring up the dregs or sediment of.
  • v. To annoy; to make someone angry.
  • v. (intransitive) To bubble, seethe.
  • v. (obsolete, intransitive) To wander; to roam.
  • v. (obsolete, Britain, dialect, intransitive) To romp.

agitate

  • v. (transitive) To cause to move with a violent, irregular action.
  • v. (intransitive, rare) To move or actuate.
  • v. (transitive) To stir up; to disturb or excite; to perturb.
  • v. (transitive) To discuss with great earnestness; to debate.
  • v. (transitive) To revolve in the mind, or view in all its aspects; to contrive busily; to devise; to plot.

boil

  • n. A localized accumulation of pus in the skin, resulting from infection.
  • n. The point at which fluid begins to change to a vapour.
  • n. A dish of boiled food, especially based on seafood.
  • n. (rare, nonstandard) The collective noun for a group of hawks.
  • v. (transitive) To heat (a liquid) to the point where it begins to turn into a gas.
  • v. (transitive, intransitive) To cook in boiling water.
  • v. (intransitive) Of a liquid, to begin to turn into a gas, seethe.
  • v. (intransitive, informal, used only in progressive tenses) Said of weather being uncomfortably hot.
  • v. (intransitive, informal, used only in progressive tenses) To feel uncomfortably hot. See also seethe.
  • v. To form, or separate, by boiling or evaporation.
  • v. (obsolete) To steep or soak in warm water.
  • v. To be agitated like boiling water; to bubble; to effervesce.
  • v. To be moved or excited with passion; to be hot or fervid.

churn

  • v. (transitive) To agitate rapidly and repetitively, or to stir with a rowing or rocking motion; generally…
  • v. (transitive, figuratively) To produce excessive and sometimes undesirable or unproductive activity or…
  • v. (intransitive) To move rapidly and repetitively with a rocking motion; to tumble, mix or shake.
  • v. (informal, travel, aviation) (in a booking system) to repeatedly cancel and rebook a reservation in order…
  • n. A vessel used for churning.
  • n. (telecommunications) The time when a consumer switches his/her service provider.
  • n. (telecommunications) The mass of people who are ready to switch carriers, expressed by the formula Customer…
  • n. Cyclic activity that achieves nothing.

commove

  • v. To move violently; to agitate, excite or rouse.

disturb

  • v. (transitive) to confuse a quiet, constant state or a calm, continuous flow, in particular: thoughts, actions…
  • v. (transitive) to divert, redirect, or alter by disturbing.
  • v. (intransitive) to have a negative emotional impact; to cause emotional distress or confusion.
  • n. (obsolete) disturbance.

moil

  • v. To toil, to work hard.
  • v. To churn continually.
  • v. (Britain, transitive) To defile or dirty.
  • n. Hard work.
  • n. Confusion, turmoil.
  • n. A spot; a defilement.
  • n. (glassblowing) The glass circling the tip of a blowpipe or punty, such as the residual glass after detaching…
  • n. (glassblowing, blow molding) The excess material which adheres to the top, base, or rim of a glass object…
  • n. (glassblowing) The metallic oxide from a blowpipe which has adhered to a glass object.

move

  • v. (intransitive) To change place or posture; to stir; to go, in any manner, from one place or position to…
  • v. (intransitive) To act; to take action; to stir; to begin to act.
  • v. (intransitive) To change residence, for example from one house, town, or state, to another; to go and…
  • v. (intransitive, chess, and other games) To change the place of a piece in accordance with the rules of…
  • v. (transitive, ergative) To cause to change place or posture in any manner; to set in motion; to carry,…
  • v. (transitive, chess) To transfer (a piece or man) from one space or position to another, according to the…
  • v. (transitive) To excite to action by the presentation of motives; to rouse by representation, persuasion,…
  • v. (transitive) To arouse the feelings or passions of; especially, to excite to tenderness or compassion,…
  • v. (transitive, intransitive) To propose; to recommend; specifically, to propose formally for consideration…
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To mention; to raise (a question); to suggest (a course of action); to lodge (a…
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To incite, urge (someone to do something); to solicit (someone for or of an issue);…
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To apply to, as for aid.
  • v. (law, transitive, intransitive) To request an action from the court.
  • n. The act of moving; a movement.
  • n. An act for the attainment of an object; a step in the execution of a plan or purpose.
  • n. A formalized or practiced action used in athletics, dance, physical exercise, self-defense, hand-to-hand…
  • n. The event of changing one's residence.
  • n. A change in strategy.
  • n. A transfer, a change from one employer to another.
  • n. (board games) The act of moving a token on a gameboard from one position to another according to the rules…

rile

  • v. to make angry.
  • v. to stir or move from a state of calm or order.

vex

  • v. (transitive, now rare) To trouble aggressively, to harass.
  • v. (transitive) To annoy, irritate.
  • v. (transitive) To cause (mental) suffering to; to distress.
  • v. (transitive, rare) To twist, to weave.
  • v. (intransitive, obsolete) To be irritated; to fret.
  • v. (transitive) To toss back and forth; to agitate; to disquiet.

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