roil
Make water cloudy
Roil means to disturb or agitate, making something turbid or unsettled.
Water roils when sediment gets stirred up; emotions roil when agitated: The scandal roiled financial markets.
In American usage, roil often replaces the British rile for annoying or irritating someone: His comments roiled the opposition.
The word suggests churning unrest beneath the surface.
Agitate cream into butter
- seetheBoil with quiet rage
- swirlRotating, curving movement
- surgeSudden powerful increase
- boilHeat to bubbling point
foam · froth · eddy · whirl · whirlpool · vortex · maelstrom · torrent
churn
Agitate cream into butter
boil · foam · froth · eddy · whirl · whirlpool · vortex · maelstrom · torrent · tempest
irritate
Cause mild anger
nettle · rile · peeve · rankle · gall · chafe · aggravate · exasperate · infuriate · anger
disturb
Interrupt or trouble
discompose · ruffle · trouble · stir up · churn up · upset · disconcert · fluster · rattle · shake up
muddy
Obscured by silt
sediment · stir up · churn up · disturb · dirty · befoul · pollute · contaminate · discolor · obscure