verb
- Be agitated.
- usage: "the sea was churning in the storm"
- Make turbid by stirring up the sediments of.
adjective
- Aroused to impatience or anger.
- usage: "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"
- Of a liquid. ( agitated vigorously; in a state of turbulence)
- usage: "the river's roiling current"; "turbulent rapids"
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