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verb
To render turbid by stirring up the dregs or sediment of.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
Qualifier: especially a liquid
Synonyms: agitate, inturbidate, stir, stir up
Antonyms: none provided
verb
To annoy; to make angry; to throw into discord.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: irritate, rile, rile up, stir up, aggravate, annoy, nettle, rankle, ruffle, sting, antagonize, bother, disgruntle, botherate, bug, get, grate, burn up, bedevil, cheese off, devil, exasperate, frustrate, get up, grotch, hack off, hassle, irk, jazz, molest, mommick, nark, nerve, pee off, peeve, peeve off, persecute, pique, piss off, provoke, roil, storm, test someone's patience, tick off, trouble, try one's patience, vex, wind up, Idioms:, boil someone's piss, chap someone's hide, get on someone's nerves, get on someone's tits, get on someone's wick, get someone's back up, get someone's dander up, get someone's goat, get someone's Irish up, get someone's nanny, get someone's nanny-goat, get under one's goat, get under someone's skin, give someone the shits, grind one's gears, harsh one's mellow, put someone's back up, raise someone's hackles, rub someone the wrong way, rub up the wrong way, ruffle someone's feathers, tee off, torque off
Antonyms: none provided
verb
To bubble, seethe.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
To romp or tumble.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
make turbid by stirring up the sediments of
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: rile
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: agitate, vex, disturb, commove, shake up, stir up, raise up
Narrower terms: muddle, puddle
verb
be agitated
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: churn, boil, moil
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: move
Narrower terms: seethe, roll
History
Origin uncertain. Possibly from French or Middle French rouiller (“to rust, make muddy”), from Old French rouil (“mud, rust”), from Vulgar Latin *robicula, from Latin robigo (“rust, blight”)
Across languages
61 source translations are retained for this English entry.
