Usually means: Heat liquid until it bubbles.
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We found 46 dictionaries that define the word boil:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. boil: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. boil, boil: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. boil, boil: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. boil: Collins English Dictionary
  5. boil: Vocabulary.com
  6. Boil, boil: Wordnik
  7. boil, the boil: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. boil: Wiktionary
  9. boil: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. boil: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. boil: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. boil: Dictionary.com
  13. boil (n.), boil (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. boil: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Boil (album), Boil: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Boil: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. boil: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. boil: Rhymezone
  19. boil: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. boil: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. boil: Free Dictionary
  22. boil: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. boil: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. boil: Linda's Culinary Dictionary
  2. Epicurus.com Spanish Glossary (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. boil: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Boil (infection), boil: Encyclopedia

Medicine (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Boil: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Probert Encyclopaedia of Medicine (No longer online)
  5. Boil (infection), boil: Medical dictionary
  6. Rudy's List of Archaic Medical Terms (No longer online)
  7. Boil: Drug Medical Dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Encyclopedia of Graphic Symbols (No longer online)
  2. boil: Idioms

Religion (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Boil: Easton Bible
  2. Boil: Smith's Bible Dictionary

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. boil, boil: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. boil, the boil: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glossary of Canoe Terminology (No longer online)

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  3. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See boilable as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A localized accumulation of pus in the skin, resulting from infection.
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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