WordDisk
  • Reading
    • Shortcuts
      •   Home
      •   All Articles
      •   Read from Another Site
      Sources
      • Wikipedia
      • Simple Wikipedia
      • VOA Learning English
      • Futurity
      • The Conversation
      • MIT News
      • Harvard Gazette
      • Cambridge News
      • YDS/YÖKDİL Passages
      Topics
      • Technology
      • Engineering
      • Business
      • Economics
      • Human
      • Health
      • Energy
      • Biology
      • Nature
      • Space
  •  Log in
  •  Sign up
1.66
History
Add

roil verb [ rɔɪl ]

• make (a liquid) turbid or muddy by disturbing the sediment.
• "winds roil these waters"
• make (someone) annoyed or irritated.
Origin: late 16th century: perhaps from Old French ruiler ‘mix mortar’, from late Latin regulare ‘regulate’.


2025 WordDisk