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