Usually means: Eggs cooked briefly in water.
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  1. soft-boiled: Merriam-Webster
  2. soft-boiled: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. soft-boiled: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. soft-boiled, soft-boiled: Collins English Dictionary
  5. soft-boiled: Vocabulary.com
  6. soft-boiled: Wordnik
  7. soft-boiled: Wiktionary
  8. soft-boiled: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. soft-boiled: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. soft-boiled: Dictionary.com
  11. soft-boiled: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  12. soft-boiled: Rhymezone
  13. soft-boiled: FreeDictionary.org
  14. soft-boiled: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. soft-boiled: TheFreeDictionary.com
  16. soft-boiled: Infoplease Dictionary

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▸ adjective:  (of a boiled egg) cooked to a soft consistency with the yolk still runny
▸ adjective:  softhearted or sentimental

Similar:
cooked, softhearted, soft boiled, softboiled, half-boiled, hard-boiled, Fried, scrambled, parboiled, boiled, more...

Opposite:
hard-boiled, fully cooked, well-done

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Similar:
cooked, softhearted, soft boiled, softboiled, half-boiled, hard-boiled, Fried, scrambled, parboiled, boiled, more...

Opposite:
hard-boiled, fully cooked, well-done



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