v
(transitive, cooking) To cook by dipping briefly into boiling water, then directly into cold water.
n
A boil that suppurates imperfectly, or fails to come to a head.
v
(intransitive) to be removed by boiling
n
An order that everyone in an area boil or otherwise sanitize water before using it for drinking or for use with food.
v
(intransitive) To boil to such an extent as to overflow its container.
v
(figuratively) To undertake an overwhelmingly difficult task or approach to a problem.
v
(transitive) To cook or prepare by boiling.
adj
(of water) Having reached the boiling point.
v
Pronunciation spelling of boiling.
n
(idiomatic) The state of being heated, with high aggression.
v
Obsolete spelling of boil [(transitive, of liquids) To heat to the point where it begins to turn into a gas.]
v
(transitive, intransitive) To make a hot soup by combining ingredients and boiling them in water.
v
(US) To heat something until it reaches its boiling point.
n
The liquid used in this process.
n
(obsolete) The action of boiling.
v
(chemistry, of a superheated liquid) To suddenly boil, causing movement of the vessel and loss of liquid.
v
(intransitive) To swell to the point of bursting.
v
(transitive) To expend energy resulting from metabolizing food.
v
(intransitive) To become nonfunctional (especially of lightbulbs or similar light-producing devices).
v
(transitive) To cook slowly in hot water that is below the boiling point.
v
(transitive) To remove the foam from.
v
To cook food in a double boiler.
adj
fluidized by the continual injection of gas and liquid through small holes
v
(obsolete) To boil or bubble up.
adj
(literally, of a liquid) Boiling or agitated as if boiling.
adj
Related to, or caused by ebullition
v
(intransitive, of a gas) To escape from solution in a liquid in the form of bubbles.
v
(obsolete) To boil; to seethe.
n
(now rare) Boiling, stewing.
v
(obsolete, intransitive) To boil with anger; to effervesce.
v
(transitive) To boil up; to swell and rage; to be agitated.
v
(obsolete, rare) To be agitated; to boil up; to effervesce.
v
(transitive) To scald completely; scorch.
v
(transitive, obsolete) To scald.
v
(obsolete) to simmer; to boil
n
The act of fulminating or exploding; detonation.
v
(transitive) To cook (an egg) to a solid consistency: to cause to be hard-boiled.
v
Alternative form of hard-boil [(transitive) To cook (an egg) to a solid consistency: to cause to be hard-boiled.]
n
(idiomatic, figuratively) A dangerous situation; trouble.
v
Obsolete form of emboil. [(obsolete, intransitive) To boil with anger; to effervesce.]
adj
Disseminated by blowing.
v
To bubble over, especially with exuberance or enthusiasm.
v
To boil food briefly so that it is partly cooked.
v
(transitive) To fry until partly cooked and crispy.
v
(intransitive) To be cooked in simmering liquid
n
(figuratively) A stressful situation that is liable to erupt.
n
(obsolete) The act of boiling up or effervescing.
v
(intransitive) To bubble, seethe.
n
(cooking) The boiling of a liquid rapidly with plenty of bubbling, which (unlike simmering) may break up or alter the shape of ingredients.
v
(cooking) To heat almost to boiling.
v
(transitive, archaic) To boil.
v
(transitive, obsolete or rare, figuratively) To abandon or cease (animosity, etc.)
v
(intransitive, UK dialectal) To boil gently; simmer.
v
Obsolete form of simmer. [(intransitive) To cook or undergo heating slowly at or below the boiling point.]
v
(transitive) To cause to cook or to cause to undergo heating slowly at or below the boiling point.
v
(intransitive) To make the sound of water boiling on a hot surface.
v
(transitive, figuratively) To make angry.
v
To become coated with condensation. To fog up.
adj
Having been cooked by slowly boiling or simmering. See stew.
n
A primitive method of boiling water or milk by dropping hot stones into it.
v
(transitive, dialectal) To consume with fire; burn.
v
Obsolete spelling of estuate [(transitive) To boil up; to swell and rage; to be agitated.]
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