Of fluids: Charged with solid or extraneous particles. Of water: Thick, turbid.

Of water: muddied or polluted, esp. by being disturbed. Also figurative and in figurative contexts. In extended use: confused, disordered. Now rare.

Of the mind, emotions, etc.: stirred up, disturbed; confused.

= roiled, adj. 2.

Turbid, full of sediment.

Of liquids, esp. water: turbid, muddy, cloudy.

Esp. of water: muddy, turbid; cloudy. Also figurative and in figurative contexts.

Of water, a river, etc.: rendered cloudy or muddy by the stirring up of silt, mud, or the like; (later sometimes more generally) stirred up…