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Boil   /bɔɪl/   Listen
Boil

verb
(past & past part. boiled; pres. part. boiling)
1.
Come to the boiling point and change from a liquid to vapor.
2.
Immerse or be immersed in a boiling liquid, often for cooking purposes.  "Boil wool"
3.
Bring to, or maintain at, the boiling point.
4.
Be agitated.  Synonyms: churn, moil, roil.
5.
Be in an agitated emotional state.  Synonym: seethe.
noun
1.
A painful sore with a hard core filled with pus.  Synonym: furuncle.
2.
The temperature at which a liquid boils at sea level.  Synonym: boiling point.



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"Boil" Quotes from Famous Books



... Boil the beef, bones, and vegetables in two quarts of water over a slow fire—adding pepper and salt. Skim occasionally, and after two hours add two tablespoons of sherry; then strain through fine soup-strainer or cheese-cloth. This is the basis of all the following ...
— Simple Italian Cookery • Antonia Isola

... I groaned. "What about the mineral water bottles we emptied at lunch and dinner? Let the cook boil water, and ...
— It Happened in Egypt • C. N. Williamson & A. M. Williamson

... a house upon some street disturbance, so, from this post, he looks down upon the tumbling of the Merry Men. On such a night, of course, he peers upon a world of blackness, where the waters wheel and boil, where the waves joust together with the noise of an explosion, and the foam towers and vanishes in the twinkling of an eye. Never before had I seen the Merry Men thus violent. The fury, height, and transiency of their ...
— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume XXI • Robert Louis Stevenson

... spread up here all by ourselves, tomorrow night, after the show. We'll eat the egg. I'll get the cook to boil it all day tomorrow—does it take a day ...
— The Circus Boys On the Mississippi • Edgar B. P. Darlington

... could not have been picked out with greater accuracy if the whaler had known the exact spot where the big cetacean was going to appear. Within thirty feet of the boat the water began to swirl and boil. ...
— The Boy With the U. S. Fisheries • Francis Rolt-Wheeler


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