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View definitions for boil

boil

noun as in blister

verb as in heat to bubbling

verb as in be angry

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My attitude, crazy as it sounds, boiled down to this: Maybe we were all going to die, but at least I was making money.

From Salon

Yet, when both games came to the boil, the atmosphere was bubbling.

From BBC

And he finds gripping ways to keep those centuries-old resentments bubbling at the surface until they reach a sweltering boil.

From Salon

When Kelsey Barnard Clark won the sixteenth season of "Top Chef," set in Kentucky, she clinched victory with a dish that defied fine dining expectations: cornbread and buttermilk with crawfish, boiled peanuts, cucumber and watermelon.

From Salon

Now, there’s something admittedly, well, contradictory about making a hard-“boiled” egg in an air fryer—but alas, it works.

From Salon

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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