roil
pronunciation
How to pronounce roil in British English:
UK [rɔɪl]
How to pronounce roil in American English:
US [rɔɪl]
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- Verb:
- be agitated
- make turbid by stirring up the sediments of
Word Origin
- roil (v.)
- 1580s, of uncertain origin, probably from Middle French rouiller "to rust, make muddy," from Old French roil "mud, muck, rust" (12c.), from Vulgar Latin *robicula, from Latin robigo "rust" (see robust). An earlier borrowing of the French verb is Middle English roil "to roam or rove about" (early 14c.). Related: Roiled; roiling.
Example
- 1. For now , europe 's voters roil the markets .
- 2. Any hint of a political view would roil markets .
- 3. Facebook 's ipo came at a fragile time for traders as the european sovereign debt crisis and developments in greece have continued to roil equity markets .
- 4. But , beneath the furious roil of the economic crisis , a national conversation has quietly begun about the irrationality of our drug laws .
- 5. Stories of seaborne migration used to roil the politics of southern europe regularly .