Definitions

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  • adjective of a liquid agitated; with stirred-up dregs or sediment; turbid
  • adjective by analogy, of a person agitated

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Examples

  • In the small, newly painted room, which smelt of chloroform and varnish, he sat staring through the half open door to the hail where a surgeon, wearing a shirt with roiled-up sleeves, had just hurried by.

    The Wheel of Life Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow 1909

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