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To rise and fall rhythmically or spasmodically, sometimes violently

To render turbid by stirring up the dregs or sediment of

To form or contain a rising or overflowing mass of small bubbles

To cause to become angry

To cause to become agitated or bothered

To shake or vibrate jerkily or nervously

To physically agitate or stir up

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Verb

To rise and fall rhythmically or spasmodically, sometimes violently

cause to effervesce

“I sit awake in the night, watching the sea roil, listening to the stones roll in the surf, longing to move into one of these lonely houses.”

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To render turbid by stirring up the dregs or sediment of

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“They were scooping out depressions by tail action so vigorously applied as to roil the clear water above them.”

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To form or contain a rising or overflowing mass of small bubbles

to become foamy

produce bubbles

“A thick black mass of clouds has appeared on the horizon, and the ocean is starting to roil and froth.”

Verb

To cause to become angry

rub up the wrong way

drive up the wall

rub the wrong way

get on your nerves

make someone see red

get under your skin

make your blood boil

get your back up

give someone the hump

get on one's nerves

put your back up

send into a rage

drive to distraction

get in your hair

raise your hackles

make somebody's hackles rise

get on your wick

get your dander up

give someone the pip

try your patience

ruffle one's feathers

rub you up the wrong way

make you see red

drive round the twist

drive round the bend

get your hackles up

get across someone

stick in one's craw

try the patience of

drive you up the wall

set one's teeth on edge

rattle someone's cage

get up someone's nose

get a rise out of

be like a red rag to a bull

breathe down someone's neck

give someone grief

be on your back

lose one's temper

irritate greatly

work into lather

take a rise out of

hit where one lives

give offence to

cause offence to

be an affront to

put someone's nose out of joint

cause offense to

cut to the quick

drive you out of your mind

drive you to distraction

drive you round the bend

make somebody's blood boil

drive you crazy

drive you round the twist

get on the wrong side of

make an enemy of somebody

cause resentment to

cause annoyance to

give a hard time

rattle one's cage

be on the back of

bend someone's ear

be a thorn in someone's flesh

be a pain in the neck

give a bad time

be a thorn in someone's side

get someone's wick

rattle someone's chain

push one's buttons

run up the wrong way

upset the applecart

stroke someone's hair the wrong way

hit a sour note

push someon's buttons

cause disquiet to

take the mickey

arouse hostility in

get on the nerves of

take the piss out of

get in the hair of

give the cold shoulder

search high heaven

be on one's case

be disagreeable

tread on someone's toes

be a nuisance to

hurt somebody's feelings

make someone fed up

play cat and mouse

rub salt in wound

put through wringer

prey on your mind

occupy thoughts

do someone's head in

make someone scratch their head

push someone's buttons

have had enough

make discontented

exhaust someone's patience

throw off balance

get on someone's case

put someone off their stroke

put into a flap

throw into a tizz

cause someone to lose their composure

throw into tizzy

find fault with

bust someone's balls

get on someone's back

keep complaining to

cause anxiety to

excite excessively

get carried away

get in a lather

take the wind out of your sails

completely surprise

make someone's blood run cold

raise someone's eyebrows

set someone back on their heels

shake out of your complacency

hit like ton of bricks

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“The President wished to avoid complicating this core objective by carrying out at the same time a quest for intelligence consolidation that was bound to roil the military brass.”

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To cause to become agitated or bothered

work into lather

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“She felt the dark curtain of gloom roil her again.”

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To shake or vibrate jerkily or nervously

move up and down

shake like a leaf

move spasmodically

shake uncontrollably

shake violently

move from side to side

move to and fro

swing back and forth

swing backwards and forwards

change position

wave to and fro

go from one extreme to the other

have the shakes

shake in your boots

quake in your boots

blow hot and cold

move back and forth

move backward and forward

move side to side

swing from side to side

swing to and fro

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Verb

To physically agitate or stir up

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