What is the meaning of roiling?

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verb

Be agitated.
- usage: "the sea was churning in the storm"
- synonyms: churn, boil, moil, roil
Make turbid by stirring up the sediments of.
- synonyms: roil, rile

adjective

Of a liquid. ( agitated vigorously; in a state of turbulence)
- usage: "the river's roiling current"; "turbulent rapids"
- synonyms: churning, roiled, roily, turbulent

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