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  • verb Present participle of roil.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective (of a liquid) agitated vigorously; in a state of turbulence

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Examples

  • It requires nerve, as the milk ensures the superheated sugar rises in roiling fury up the sides of the saucepan, as a kind of white volcanic lava.

    2009 December « Tales from the Reading Room 2009

  • It requires nerve, as the milk ensures the superheated sugar rises in roiling fury up the sides of the saucepan, as a kind of white volcanic lava.

    Sweet Stories « Tales from the Reading Room 2009

  • Build it inside a ring of rocks or logs to hold the frying pan, and feed dry wood into the fire to keep the oil roiling, which is key for crispy fish.

    Four Types of Cooking Fires and What Foods to Cook on Them 2007

  • Then you had Watergate, so there was turbulence and all this sort of sense of the country kind of roiling all the time.

    CNN Transcript Jan 2, 2007 2007

  • Those on Wall Street had used their usual instrument - fear of 'roiling' the markets

    NYT > Home Page By KEVIN PHILLIPS 2010

  • Those on Wall Street had used their usual instrument - fear of 'roiling' the markets

    NYT > Home Page 2010

  • Worry about liquidity is roiling the metals markets as expectations that euro-zone leaders will inject capital into the region's lenders fail to allay fears over the banking sector's health.

    Metal Market Loses Rose-Tinted Specs Andrea Hotter 2011

  • At worst, I would end up falling off the bridge and into the roiling waters of the gorge below.

    The Rainbow Clockwerkz Hugh Barlow 2012

  • France is under heavy pressure by international investors to rein in chronic budget deficits to reassure investors that the country won't be contaminated by the sovereign-debt crisis roiling Greece and other Southern European nations.

    Socialists Square Off: Who's to Face Sarkozy? 2011

  • Their companions dropped their spectral hands without a thought, their memory fading like a frost, their lover roiling alone in her sheets, the guy at the bar asking “Did I order two?”

    GONE • by Christopher P. Garlington 2009

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