roil
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To render turbid by stirring up the dregs or sediment of; as, to roil wine, cider, etc., in casks or bottles; to roil a spring.
To disturb, as the temper; to ruffle the temper of; to rouse the passion of resentment in; to perplex.
To wander; to roam.
To romp.
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the sea was churning in the storm
“A campaign against the court system will roil the right-wing base and force Bennett to exit his comfort zone of corona, corona, corona,” she writes.
And with the clear-glass lid, I can peer in and watch the little bubbles start to roil and rumble.
Does it somehow roil up from the depths where it has sunk countless times before, or does it float downstream from some unknown origin?
“Clemantine Wamariya has written a defining, luminescent memoir that shines a sharp light on the dark forces that roil our age.
The group was remarkably diverse, and included Democrats and Republicans, sportsmen, ranchers, businessmen and academics, with little signs of the polarization that would roil such efforts today.