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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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And contemporaneous observers predicted that South Africa would fracture, that a civil war would roil for the next decade.
A year after the fall of Col. Muammar Gaddafi, violence continues to roil Libya, heightening fears that the revolution could fail.
The house being near the head, there will not water enough get into the spring, in any storm, to roil the water.
But sovereignty disputes between China and its neighbours still roil the waters.
Is it not undiplomatic of Mr Lee to roil the waters, especially if it is for domestic political purposes? Of course it is.
The clouds are pink, the seas around Hook's ship surge and roil, and the fairies dance deep in the forest.

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