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Definitions: Roil |
RoilVerb1. Be agitated; of liquids. 2. Make turbid by stirring up the sediments of. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "roil" was first used: 1590. (references) |
Synonyms: RoilSynonyms: boil (v), churn (v), moil (v), rile (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Hate | Excite hatred, provoke hatred; Noun: be hateful; Adjective: stink in the nostrils; estrange, alienate, repel, set against, sow dissension, set by the ears, envenom, incense, irritate, rile; horrify; roil. |
Uncleanness | Render unclean; Adjective: dirt, dirty; daub, blot, blur, smudge, smutch, soil, smoke, tarnish, slaver, spot, smear; smirch; begrease;dabble, drabble, draggle, daggle; spatter, slubber; besmear; bemire, beslime, begrime, befoul; splash, stain, distain, maculate, sully, pollute, defile, debase, contaminate, taint, leaven; corrupt; (injure); cover with dust; Noun: drabble in the mud; roil. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Roil |
| English words defined with "roil": Dossil ♦ Volumed. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "roil": Penicil. (references) |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
roil | 4 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "roil"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | turbulloj (abash, addle, alarm, confound, confuse, discomfit, disconcert, disquiet, embarrass, fog, muddy, obfuscate, obscure, perturb, rile, trouble, unhinge, unsettle), nxeh (chafe, cook, enrage, excite, gall, heat, irritate, make angry, Mull, rile, torrefy, vex). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | كدر (annoy, annoyance, cloudiness, distress, disturb, embitter, make turbid, muddiness, muddle, muddy, offend, ruffle, spoil, trouble, turbid, turbidity, unsettle), عكر (derange, disturb, muddle, muddy, trouble, turbid, turbidity). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | мътя (brew, brood, cover, hatch, hover, incubate, rile, sit), досаждам на (turn off). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | مخلوطکردن (Commix, Hash, Interlard, Meddle, Melt, Ming, Mingle, Mix, Puddle, Temper), سرگردان شدن (Stray), اشفته کردن (Embroil, Harrow, Mess, Puzzle, Upset), دنبال هم دویدن , باجیغ ودادوبازی کردن . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ταράσσω (abash, agitate, confound, discompose, disconcert, disturb, flurry, flutter, jar, ruffle, shock, stir), θολώνω (bedim, cloud, muddle, obfuscate, snafu, steam up). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | felkavar (puddle, tempest, to cloy, to dismay, to freak sy out, to muddy, to roil, to stir up, to unsettle, to vex, whirl). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | oilray turvar (blear, cloud, dim, muddy, obscure, puddle, thicken), irritar (aggravate, anger, annoy, bug, bullyrag, chafe, corkscrew, disgruntle, displume, enrapture, exacerbation, exasperate, fashion, feign, gall, huffish, incense, irritate, madden, narrate, needle, nettle, offend, peeved, pique, provoke, rile, roughen, ruffle, sharpen, spite, thurify, vex), incomodar (ail, annoy, bother, discomfort, discommodity, disquiet, disturb, fidget, fret, harass, hinder, incommode, inconvenience, leech, molest, pester, trouble), fazer zangar (peeve). (various references) мутить (muddy, rile), досаждать (annoy, chagrin, faze, molest, plague, vex). (various references) zamutiti (bedim, dim, grow dim, mix, stir). (various references) enturbiar (blur, disturb, fog, muddy, puddle). (various references) grumlas, grumla (cloud, dim, make muddy, Mar, obscure, soil). (various references) сердити (aggravate, anger, annoy, exasperate, nettle, provoke, rile), каламутити (rile), пустувати (caper, fool about, footle, piddle, rollick, skylark). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | robigo. (various references) |
| Old French | 900-1400 | rouil. (various references) |
| Middle French | 1400-1600 | rouiller. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "roil": roiled, roilier, roiliest, roiling, roils, roily. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "roil": broil, charbroil, embroil, panbroil. (additional references) | |
Words containing "roil": broiled, broiler, broilers, broiling, broils, charbroiled, charbroiler, charbroilers, charbroiling, charbroils, embroiled, embroiling, embroilment, embroilments, embroils, panbroiled, panbroiling, panbroils, sacroiliac, sacroiliacs, troilism, troilisms, troilite, troilites, troilus, troiluses. (additional references) | |
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"Roil" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: croil, druil, groil, Iroij, orbil, Orfila, Orgill, oril, oriz, orli, Orlik, oroil, proil, raili, railn, railw, raoul, reil, reli, reoil, Reuil, rhil, ril, rilb, rilg, rilo, rioh, riola, riole, rioli, Riolo, rior, roaj, roal, roalt, Rocio, Rodilla, roel, Roell, rofl, Rohit, roi, roiall, roib, roic, Roid, roih, roij, roip, roir, roisl, roki, Rokit, rol, roli, rolic, rolp, roni, Ronilan, rool, ropily, Roriz, rorl, rosil, rotl, roul, rowl, royle, rozi, rual, ruil, ruix, ryoji, troil, zoil. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "roil" (pronounced roy"l) |
| 3 | r oy" l | broil, embroil. |
| 2 | -oy" l | boil, coil, foil, Hoyle, oil, recoil, soil, spoil, toil, uncoil. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "i-l-o-r" | |
-1 letter: oil. | |
-2 letters: li, lo, or. | |
| Words containing the letters "i-l-o-r" | |
+1 letter: broil, lirot, loris, oiler, oriel, reoil, roils, roily, triol, zoril. | |
+2 letters: bailor, boiler, broils, caroli, coiler, florid, florin, foliar, frijol, frivol, frolic, gloria, gorily, holier, jailor, lictor, liquor, liroth, logier, loiter, lorica, lories, milord, moiler, neroli, oilers, oilier, oorali, orchil, oriels, oriole, prolix, pylori, reboil, recoil, reoils, rialto, roiled, ropily, rosily, sailor, tailor, toiler, triols, wormil, zorils. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)52 6F 69 6C |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).-. --- .. .-.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010010 01101111 01101001 01101100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)R o i l |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0052 006F 0069 006C |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)52817578 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Expressions: Internet | 5. Translations: Modern 6. Translations: Ancient 7. Derivations 8. Rhymes | 9. Anagrams 10. Orthography 11. Bibliography |
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Hongaars, Hongaar, hungarez, الهنغاري, مجري, هنغاري, المجري, اللغة الهنغارية, Húngaru, унгарски език, унгарски, унгарец, Hungaryan, 匈牙利語 , 匈牙利语, maïarský, maïar, maïarština, ungarer, Hongaarse, ungarskt, unkarilainen, hongrois, Hongaarsk, ungar, Ούγγρος, "ו 'רי, magyar, ungherese, 헝가리, Ungaarish, Ungaaragh, Węgier, ongrés, ungureşte, ungur, limba maghiarã, unguresc, maghiar, limba ungarã, венгр, венгерский, mađarski, mađar, mađarski jezik, húngaro, ungrare, ชาวฮังการี, macarca, macar, угорська мова, угорка, угорський, угорець, người Hung-ga-ri tiếng Hung-ga-ri, for Hungarian; Portugees, portugez, portugalisht, اللغة البرتغالية, البرتغالية, البرتغالي, португалски език, португалски, португалец, Potuges, 葡萄牙语, 葡萄牙人 , 葡萄牙語 , portugalský, portugiser, portugisiskt, portugalilainen, portugais, Portugeesk, portugiesisch, πορτογάλοσ, ορτογάλος, portugál, Portaingéilis, portoghese, ポルトガル語 , ポルトガル", 포르투갈, Portiugish, Portiugagh, portugues, Portugalczyk, português, portughez, португальский, portugalski jezik, portugalski, portugalac, portugués, Mreno, si-Putúkezi, portugis, portekiz, Portekízlí, portekizli, portekizce, португальська мова, португальський, португалець, người B"-đ o-nha tiếng B"-đ o-nha, for Portuguese; 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