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What does roil mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word roil? Here's what it means.

Verb
  1. To render turbid by stirring up the dregs or sediment of
  2. To annoy; to make someone angry.
  3. (intransitive) To bubble, seethe.
  4. (obsolete, intransitive) To wander; to roam.
  5. (obsolete, Britain, dialect, intransitive) To romp.
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The clouds are pink, the seas around Hook's ship surge and roil, and the fairies dance deep in the forest.
But sovereignty disputes between China and its neighbours still roil the waters.
A year after the fall of Col. Muammar Gaddafi, violence continues to roil Libya, heightening fears that the revolution could fail.
And contemporaneous observers predicted that South Africa would fracture, that a civil war would roil for the next decade.
At its smallest diameter of 300 million miles, it becomes mottled with brilliant spots as massive plumes of hot plasma roil its surface.
Opinions still roil as to whether the Ramones' legendary two-minute songs hit new head-banging heights or were strictly kiddie blither.

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