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roll has 45 distinct synonyms spread across 22 of its 33 senses. Each sense below keeps its own list, because a synonym belongs to a meaning and not to a word: swapping one sense's substitute into another sense's sentence is how a thesaurus makes writing worse. WordNet records no antonym for it — antonymy is a relation between word forms rather than concepts, so it is deliberately sparse.
Counts are distinct word forms across every sense. A synonym that appears under three senses is counted once here and shown three times below, under each sense it belongs to.
emit, produce, or utter with a deep prolonged reverberating sound
“The thunder rolled”
begin operating or running
“The cameras were rolling”
execute a roll, in tumbling
“The gymnasts rolled and jumped”
move, rock, or sway from side to side
“The ship rolled on the heavy seas”
pronounce with a roll, of the phoneme /r/
“She rolls her r's”
take the shape of a roll or cylinder
“the carpet rolled out”
rotary motion of an object around its own axis
“wheels in axial rotation”
Synonyms, antonyms and the broader and narrower relations for roll come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Full sources and licences.
photographic film rolled up inside a container to protect it from light
small rounded bread either plain or sweet
the sound of a drum (especially a snare drum) beaten rapidly and continuously
a document that can be rolled up (as for storage)
a flight maneuver; aircraft rotates about its longitudinal axis without changing direction or losing altitude