Roiling
verb
To make something liquid or a similar substance move violently and quickly, or to be in this state.
The waves roiled in the stormy sea.
Often appears as...
- roiling waters
- roiling waves
adjective
In a state of disorder or confusion.
The politician's scandal left the party in a roiling mess.
Often appears as...
- roiling controversy
- roiling mess
verb
To stir up or cause to feel upset or annoyed.
His rude comments roiled the otherwise peaceful meeting.
Often appears as...
- roiling anger
- roiling the crowd
verb
To make something liquid or a similar substance move violently and quickly, or to be in this state.
The waves roiled in the stormy sea.
Often appears as...
- roiling waters
- roiling waves
adjective
In a state of disorder or confusion.
The politician's scandal left the party in a roiling mess.
Often appears as...
- roiling controversy
- roiling mess
verb
To stir up or cause to feel upset or annoyed.
His rude comments roiled the otherwise peaceful meeting.
Often appears as...
- roiling anger
- roiling the crowd
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/2Intense Movement
Use 'roiling' to describe vigorous movement in liquids, indicating a forceful or undisciplined state.
Smoke rose from the volcano, with the lava roiling below.
Pro Tip 2/2Emotional Turbulence
'Roiling' suggests chaotic emotional states when used metaphorically, mirroring violent water movement.
Her thoughts were roiling with anxiety before the speech.
Pro Tip 1/2Intense Movement
Use 'roiling' to describe vigorous movement in liquids, indicating a forceful or undisciplined state.
Smoke rose from the volcano, with the lava roiling below.
Pro Tip 2/2Emotional Turbulence
'Roiling' suggests chaotic emotional states when used metaphorically, mirroring violent water movement.
Her thoughts were roiling with anxiety before the speech.
Pro Tip 1/2Intense Movement
Use 'roiling' to describe vigorous movement in liquids, indicating a forceful or undisciplined state.
Smoke rose from the volcano, with the lava roiling below.
Pro Tip 2/2Emotional Turbulence
'Roiling' suggests chaotic emotional states when used metaphorically, mirroring violent water movement.
Her thoughts were roiling with anxiety before the speech.
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Video examples
Dan Pacholke: How...
Hundreds of men streamed out of their cells. I walked away as fast as I could. Eventually I went back and I started as an officer there. My job was to run one of those cell blocks and to control those hundreds of men. When I went to work at our receptions center, I could actually hear the inmates roiling from the parking lot,
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Every Animal Deserves a...
incredible than any machine man's ever built they can they can locate prey in a number of ways with this extremely sensitive instrument in the most muddy roiling water they've survived millions of years endangered of course right we try to do this with eye contact as best we can to get people to engage we're
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Katie Mack: Life-altering...
We're looking at the light from the very beginning of the universe and what we should see, if we look at something that far away, is fire, right? So we take this idea that the early universe was hot and dense, everywhere in the cosmos was, like, filled with this sort of roiling plasma.
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Searching For Life in...
And at the very bottom of it, in this pit of roiling lava, is the world's most active lava lake. We needed to get samples from the very bottom to understand how microbes can survive, so we descended down the cliff, went as close to the edge of the lava lake as we dared.
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How the compass unlocked...
And when you use a compass, you are in touch with the very center of our planet, where this kind of roiling ball of molten iron is spinning around and creating a magnetic field. Just like a magnet you can play with on your tabletop, it has a north pole and a south pole,
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Can you solve the sea...
a host of sea monsters emerges from the depths to demand tribute from the floating city of Atlantartica. As the ruler of the city, you’d always dismissed the stories… until today, when 7 Leviathan Lords rose out of the roiling waters
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What it takes to make...
and it's a really hot place, and if there's a rooftop system, there is also a fan. But moral imagination is also needed to rebuild and heal our countries. My nation is roiling as it finally confronts what it's not wanted to see.
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Allan Adams: The...
and it's the afterglow of the Big Bang. Now, the Big Bang was an era in the early universe when everything we see in the night sky was condensed into an incredibly small, incredibly hot, incredibly roiling mass,
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The story of life in...
But this planet is different -- it's roiling inside. And where that energy touches water, something new life. It arises around cracks in the Earth.
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Born to Rule by Roger...
and roiling storms and my heart is a 300 year old red vertex spinning from a story I can't remember
Video examples
Dan Pacholke: How...
Hundreds of men streamed out of their cells. I walked away as fast as I could. Eventually I went back and I started as an officer there. My job was to run one of those cell blocks and to control those hundreds of men. When I went to work at our receptions center, I could actually hear the inmates roiling from the parking lot,
Video examples
Every Animal Deserves a...
incredible than any machine man's ever built they can they can locate prey in a number of ways with this extremely sensitive instrument in the most muddy roiling water they've survived millions of years endangered of course right we try to do this with eye contact as best we can to get people to engage we're
Video examples
Katie Mack: Life-altering...
We're looking at the light from the very beginning of the universe and what we should see, if we look at something that far away, is fire, right? So we take this idea that the early universe was hot and dense, everywhere in the cosmos was, like, filled with this sort of roiling plasma.
Video examples
Searching For Life in...
And at the very bottom of it, in this pit of roiling lava, is the world's most active lava lake. We needed to get samples from the very bottom to understand how microbes can survive, so we descended down the cliff, went as close to the edge of the lava lake as we dared.
Video examples
How the compass unlocked...
And when you use a compass, you are in touch with the very center of our planet, where this kind of roiling ball of molten iron is spinning around and creating a magnetic field. Just like a magnet you can play with on your tabletop, it has a north pole and a south pole,
Video examples
Can you solve the sea...
a host of sea monsters emerges from the depths to demand tribute from the floating city of Atlantartica. As the ruler of the city, you’d always dismissed the stories… until today, when 7 Leviathan Lords rose out of the roiling waters
Video examples
What it takes to make...
and it's a really hot place, and if there's a rooftop system, there is also a fan. But moral imagination is also needed to rebuild and heal our countries. My nation is roiling as it finally confronts what it's not wanted to see.
Video examples
Allan Adams: The...
and it's the afterglow of the Big Bang. Now, the Big Bang was an era in the early universe when everything we see in the night sky was condensed into an incredibly small, incredibly hot, incredibly roiling mass,
Video examples
The story of life in...
But this planet is different -- it's roiling inside. And where that energy touches water, something new life. It arises around cracks in the Earth.
Video examples
Born to Rule by Roger...
and roiling storms and my heart is a 300 year old red vertex spinning from a story I can't remember
Example 1 of 10
Quote examples
Jan Vogler
German Musician
There's no place that communicates as much - and as quickly - as Times Square does. I see the roiling energy and its forceful race into the future. Of course, after 15 minutes, I want to get as far away from there as possible.
Quote examples
Jan Vogler
German Musician
There's no place that communicates as much - and as quickly - as Times Square does. I see the roiling energy and its forceful race into the future. Of course, after 15 minutes, I want to get as far away from there as possible.
Example 1 of 1
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