roil

Verb

Verb Forms: roiled, roiling, roils

To make a liquid murky or to irritate someone.
be agitated
make turbid by stirring up the sediments of
To render turbid by stirring up the dregs or sediment of.
To annoy; to make angry; to throw into discord.
To bubble, seethe.
To wander; to roam.
To romp.

Examples

dust storms roiling the skies
His opponent’s silent, intense stares began to ROIL his concentration during the game.
to roil a spring
to roil wine, cider, etc, in casks or bottles

Origin / Etymology

Origin uncertain. Possibly from French or Middle French rouiller (“to rust, make muddy”), from Old French rouil (“mud, rust”), from Vulgar Latin *robicula, from Latin robigo (“rust, blight”)

Synonyms

boil, churn, moil, rile, Idioms:, aggravate, agitate, annoy, antagonize, bedevil, boil someone's piss, bother, botherate, bug, burn up, chap someone's hide, cheese off, devil, disgruntle, exasperate, frustrate, get, get on someone's nerves, get on someone's tits, get on someone's wick, get someone's Irish up, get someone's back up, get someone's dander up, get someone's goat, get someone's nanny, get someone's nanny-goat, get under one's goat, get up, give someone the shits, grate, grind one's gears, grotch, hack off, harsh one's mellow, hassle, inturbidate, irk, irritate, jazz, molest, mommick, nark, pee off, peeve, persecute, pique, piss off, provoke, put someone's back up, raise someone's hackles, rankle, rile up, roil, rub someone the wrong way, rub up the wrong way, ruffle, ruffle someone's feathers, sting, stir, stir up, storm, tee off, test someone's patience, tick off, torque off, trouble, try one's patience, vex, wind up

Scrabble Score: 4

roil: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
roil: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
roil: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 5

roil: valid Words With Friends Word