boil

verb

1. 1.

   transitiveof liquids

   To heat to the point where it begins to turn into a gas.

2. 2.

   intransitiveof liquids

   To begin to turn into a gas, seethe.

3. 3.

   ambitransitive

   To cook in boiling water.

4. 4.

   intransitiveof liquids

   To be agitated like boiling water; to bubble; to effervesce.

5. 5.

   (intransitive, informal, used only in progressive tenses, of weather) To be uncomfortably hot.

6. 6.

   To be moved or excited with passion; to be hot or fervid.

noun

1. 1.

   The point at which fluid begins to change to a vapour; the boiling point.

2. 2.

   An instance of boiling.

3. 3.

   us

   A social event at which people gather to boil and eat food, especially seafood.

4. 4.

   A localized accumulation of pus in the skin, resulting from infection.

Inflected forms

Grammatical variations of the same word.

• boilernounInflected form

  Sealed vessel where water is converted to steam.

• boilingnounInflected form

  The application of heat to change something from a liquid to a gas.

Compound terms

Established multiword terms.

• boiled dinnernounCompound term

  Corned beef simmered with onions and cabbage and usually other vegetables.

• boiled eggnounCompound term

  Egg cooked briefly in the shell in gently boiling water.

• boil oververbCompound term

  Overflow or cause to overflow while boiling.

• boil downverbCompound term

  Be the essential element.

• boiling pointnounCompound term

  The temperature at which a liquid boils at sea level.

• boil smutnounCompound term

  A common smut attacking Indian corn causing greyish white swellings that rupture to expose a black spore mass.