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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
roil /rɔɪl/

▶verb

1 make (a liquid) turbid by disturbing the sediment.
■ (of a liquid) move in a turbulent manner.

2 US term for rile (sense 1).

– derivatives
roily adjective (N. Amer.).

– origin C16: perh. from OFr. ruiler ‘mix mortar’.

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