roil

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For the past week, Denver talk radio hosts have been fissioning and steaming like a bunch of live lobsters tossed into the roil, about The Grizzly Rose, a local cowboy-motorcycle dance hall being 'rented' for ka-jillion dollars a night by a mysterious force which is present at The Democratic National Convention this week.

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  1. transitive verb To make (a liquid) muddy or cloudy by stirring up sediment.
  2. transitive verb To displease or disturb; vex: My roommate's off-putting habits began to roil me.
  3. intransitive verb To be in a state of turbulence or agitation.

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  • For the past week, Denver talk radio hosts have been fissioning and steaming like a bunch of live lobsters tossed into the roil, about The Grizzly Rose, a local cowboy-motorcycle dance hall being 'rented' for ka-jillion dollars a night by a mysterious force which is present at The Democratic National Convention this week. —  The Moderate Voice
  • NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- With fresh woes in the U.S. financial sector continuing to roil markets and oil prices free-falling on expectations for more economic slowdown, energy stocks continued their move into the red Tuesday after big losses in the previous session. —  MarketWatch.com - Top Stories
  • Such a move would roil world markets since AIG has $1.1 trillion in assets and 74 million clients in —  Why Now?
  • Such a move would roil world markets since AIG (AIG, Fortune 500) has $1.1 trillion in assets and 74 million clients in 130 countries.
  • Co. to Bank of America Inc. continued to roil stock markets the world over. —  WHAT REALLY HAPPENED
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  1. Origin unknown.

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  1. from Middle English roilen, roylen, prob. a variant of roulen, roll, used in the same sense: see roll (I., 12), and cf. roil.
  2. Formerly also royle; also dial. rile (sometimes spelled ryle), the common colloq. form in the U. S. (cf. oil, dial. ile, point, dial. pint, etc.). (a) According to Stratmann, from Old French roeler, roler, roller, vex, disturb, beat, particular uses of the orig. sense ‘roll’: see roil, roll. (b) In another view, prop, rile, and orig. as a noun, Middle English ryal, riall, foam, fermentation; perhaps from Old French roille, rouille, French rouille = Provencal roill, rust, mildew, fungous growth, ult. from Latin robigo, rust: see roin.
  3. Early modern English royle; from Middle English roile, royle; origin uncertain.
 

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