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Adjective rolling has 3 senses

resonant, resonating, resounding, reverberating, reverberative, rolling - characterized by reverberation; "a resonant voice"; "hear the rolling thunder"
Antonyms: unreverberant, nonresonant (indirect, via reverberant)
rolled, rolling, trilled - uttered with a trill; "she used rolling r's as in Spanish"
Antonym: unpronounceable (indirect, via pronounceable)
billowing, rolling, tumbling - moving in surges and billows and rolls; "billowing smoke from burning houses"; "the rolling fog"; "the rolling sea"; "the tumbling water of the rapids"
Antonyms: nonmoving, unmoving (indirect, via moving)

Noun rolling has 3 senses

peal, pealing, roll, rolling - a deep prolonged sound (as of thunder or large bells)
--₁ is a kind of sound

Derived form: verb roll₅
rolling - the act of robbing a helpless person; "he was charged with rolling drunks in the park"
--₂ is a kind of robbery
wheeling, rolling - propelling something on wheels
--₃ is a kind of propulsion, actuation

Derived form: verb roll₂

Verb roll has 18 senses

roll, turn over - move by turning over or rotating; "The child rolled down the hill"; "turn over on your left side"
--₁ is one way to turn

Derived forms: noun roll₁, noun roller₃, noun roller₄
Sample sentence:
These balls roll easily
wheel, roll - move along on or as if on wheels or a wheeled vehicle; "The President's convoy rolled past the crowds"
--₂ is one way to travel, go, move, locomote

Derived forms: noun roll₁, noun rolling₃
Sample sentence:
These cars won't roll
roll, undulate - occur in soft rounded shapes; "The hills rolled past"

Derived form: noun roll₅
Sample sentences:
Something ----s
Something is ----ing PP
roll out, roll - flatten or spread with a roller; "roll out the paper"
--₄ is one way to flatten

Derived form: noun roll₅
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
roll - emit, produce, or utter with a deep prolonged reverberating sound; "The thunder rolled"; "rolling drums"
--₅ is one way to sound, go

Derived forms: noun roll₉, noun roll₈, noun rolling₁
Sample sentences:
Cars roll in the streets
The streets roll with cars
wind, wrap, roll, twine - wrap or coil around; "roll your hair around your finger"; "Twine the thread around the spool"
--₆ is one way to move, displace

Derived forms: noun roller₅, noun roll₁
Sample sentences:
They roll the wire around the stick
The wires roll around the stick
roll - begin operating or running; "The cameras were rolling"; "The presses are already rolling"
--₇ is one way to function, work, operate, go, run
Sample sentence:
Something ----s
roll - shape by rolling; "roll a cigarette"
--₈ is one way to shape, form

Derived forms: noun roll₅, noun roll₁
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
roll - execute a roll, in tumbling; "The gymnasts rolled and jumped"
--₉ is one way to tumble

Derived form: noun roll₁
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s
hustle, pluck, roll - sell something to or obtain something from by energetic and especially underhanded activity
--₁₀ is one way to steal
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something from somebody
roll, undulate, flap, wave - move in a wavy pattern or with a rising and falling motion; "The curtains undulated"; "the waves rolled towards the beach"
--₁₁ is one way to move

Derived form: noun roller₂
Sample sentences:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s something
roll, wander, swan, stray, tramp, roam, cast, ramble, rove, range, drift, vagabond - move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment; "The gypsies roamed the woods"; "roving vagabonds"; "the wandering Jew"; "The cattle roam across the prairie"; "the laborers drift from one town to the next"; "They rolled from town to town"
--₁₂ is one way to travel, go, move, locomote
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s
Something is ----ing PP
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s PP
roll - move, rock, or sway from side to side; "The ship rolled on the heavy seas"
--₁₃ is one way to rock, sway, shake
Sample sentence:
Something ----s
roll, revolve - cause to move by turning over or in a circular manner of as if on an axis; "She rolled the ball"; "They rolled their eyes at his words"
--₁₄ is one way to move, displace

Derived form: noun roll₁
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
roll - pronounce with a roll, of the phoneme /r/; "She rolls her r's"
--₁₅ is one way to pronounce, articulate, enounce, sound out, enunciate, say
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
seethe, roll - boil vigorously; "The liquid was seething"; "The water rolled"
--₁₆ is one way to churn, boil, moil, roil
Sample sentence:
The water rolls
roll - take the shape of a roll or cylinder; "the carpet rolled out"; "Yarn rolls well"
--₁₇ is one way to change shape, change form, deform
Sample sentences:
Something ----s
Something is ----ing PP
Somebody ----s Adjective
roll, roll up - show certain properties when being rolled; "The carpet rolls unevenly"; "dried-out tobacco rolls badly"
--₁₈ is one way to change
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s Adjective