| 单词 | roil |
| 释义 | roil (once / 9213 pages) v To roil means to stir up or churn. A stormy ocean might roil, or even a restless crowd. The word roil is often confused with rile, which has a slightly different meaning. If you roil someone you're stirring them up but not necessarily annoying them. To rile someone is to deliberately provoke or antagonize them. Usually there's no roiling without riling. Muhammad Ali roiled much of America when he refused to be drafted for the Vietnam War. WORD FAMILYroil: roiled, roiling, roils USAGE EXAMPLESIn other news, the diversity issue again roiled Hollywood. Washington Times(Dec 29, 2016) Xinhua noted a "troublesome start" to 2016, probably referring to a sharp fall in the yuan and worry about China's slowing economy roiling markets worldwide. Reuters(Dec 26, 2016) That is welcome news for a part of the world roiling with conflict. Washington Times(Dec 21, 2016) 1v make turbid by stirring up the sediments of Syn|Hypo|Hyper rile muddle, puddle make into a puddle agitate, commove, disturb, raise up, shake up, stir up, vex change the arrangement or position of 2v be agitated Syn|Hypo|Hyper boil, churn, moil roll, seethe boil vigorously move move so as to change position, perform a nontranslational motion |
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