roils
Makes water cloudy
Roils is the third-person singular of roil, meaning to disturb or stir up.
Water roils when agitated into turbulence: The storm roiled the sea.
Emotions or situations roil when unsettled: Controversy roiled the committee.
The word often appears in financial contexts: News of the merger roiled markets.
Roil overlaps with rile, and the two are sometimes confused.
Blends by circling
- agitatesProvokes unrest or motion
- churnsAgitates liquid vigorously
- swirlsCircular flowing movements
- eddiesCounter-flowing circular currents
froths · whirls · billows · boils · seethes · bubbles · foams · whips
stirs
Blends by circling
eddies · froths · whirls · billows · boils · seethes · bubbles · foams · whips · turbulence
agitates
Provokes unrest or motion
incenses · inflames · riles · infuriates · enrages · upsets · disturbs · perturbs · unsettles · disquiets
disrupts
Interferes with normal operation
- destabilizesUndermines steadiness or equilibrium
- unsettlesCauses disquiet or unease
- upendsTurns upside down
convulses · disorders · troubles · shakes up · disquiets · perturbs · confounds · unnerves · rattles · distresses