What Does Roiling Sea Mean?

When water or another liquid is roiling, it's stirred up and moving in a churning way. ... If the ocean all around your little boat is roiling, it's full of waves, tossing you on its surface — and the roiling green liquid inside your blender might turn out to be a delicious smoothie, despite its strange color.

What does roiling mean?

1a : to make turbid by stirring up the sediment or dregs of. b : to stir up : disturb, disorder. 2 : rile sense 1. intransitive verb. : to move turbulently : be in a state of turbulence or agitation conflicting emotions roiling inside her.

What does roiled the waters mean?

tr. 1. To make (a liquid) turbulent or muddy or cloudy by stirring up sediment: The storm roiled the waters of the harbor. 2. To cause to be in a state of agitation or disorder: wars that roiled the continent for decades.