boil
IPA: bˈɔɪɫ
noun
- A localized accumulation of pus in the skin, resulting from infection.
- The point at which fluid begins to change to a vapour; the boiling point.
- An instance of boiling.
- A dish of boiled food, especially seafood.
- (US) A social event at which people gather to boil and eat food, especially seafood. (Compare a bake or clambake.)
- (rare, nonstandard) The collective noun for a group of hawks.
- (Scotland, archaic) A bubbling.
verb
- (transitive, of liquids) To heat to the point where it begins to turn into a gas.
- (transitive, intransitive) To cook in boiling water.
- (intransitive, of liquids) To begin to turn into a gas, seethe.
- (transitive, UK, informal) To bring to a boil, to heat so as to cause the contents to boil.
- (intransitive, informal, used only in progressive tenses, of weather) To be uncomfortably hot.
- (intransitive, informal, used only in progressive tenses) To feel uncomfortably hot.
- (transitive) To form, or separate, by boiling or evaporation.
- (obsolete) To steep or soak in warm water.
- To be agitated like boiling water; to bubble; to effervesce.
- To be moved or excited with passion; to be hot or fervid.
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Examples of "boil" in Sentences
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