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Roily

adjective
1.
(of a liquid) agitated vigorously; in a state of turbulence.  Synonyms: churning, roiled, roiling, turbulent.  "Turbulent rapids"






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"Roily" Quotes from Famous Books



... the axe and quickly made a wooden digger, then went to the edge of the swamp, and on the land twenty feet from the bog he began to dig a hole in the sandy loam. He made it two feet across and sunk it down three feet. The roily water kept oozing in all around, and Bluejay was scornful. "Well, I'd rather have what we got." Beaver dug on till there was a foot of dirty water in the hole. Then he took a pail and bailed it all out as fast as possible, left it to fill, bailed it out ...
— Two Little Savages • Ernest Thompson Seton

... thick, and fanged snakes darting guiltily aside from fear even while wanting to strike in, tangled, gnarly roots hugging the ground close, and bad odors and gases, and the light obscured—dangers thick! And these Jordan waters prove chill and roily. His stepping in stirs the mud. The storm winds sweep down the valley. A bit of a hill up above to the west casts a long sinister ...
— Quiet Talks about Jesus • S. D. Gordon



Words linked to "Roily" :   agitated, churning, turbulent



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