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Turbulent
Answer for the clue "Turbulent ", 5 letters:
roily
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Word definitions for roily in dictionaries
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Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Roily \Roil"y\, a. Turbid; as, roily water.
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Word definitions in WordNet
adj. (of a liquid) agitated vigorously; in a state of turbulence; "the river's roiling current"; "turbulent rapids" [syn: churning , roiling , roiled , turbulent ] [also: roiliest , roilier ]
Usage examples of roily.
Chapter Nine QysQ roily was mortified when Lord Henry chose to escort his mother and sister to Dilling ham the following day.
Wind, rain, roily, shoaly seas breaking clear over the ship across decks drove Cook out from land to deeper water.
Alum is often used to cleanse roily water, two or three grains in solution, being sufficient for a quart.
Little Becky had wanted to know last summer as she slip sloppily balanced along roily rocks and squeezed between the trunks of two high-reaching and rough-ribbed tamaracks grown up on either side of a boulder.