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boil(verb)/bɔɪl/ /bɔɪl/Verb Forms- when a liquid boils or when you boil it, it is heated to the point where it forms bubbles and turns to steam or vapour
- The water was bubbling and boiling away.
- Boil plenty of salted water, then add the spaghetti.
Extra Examples- Boil the water for five minutes to sterilize it.
- Water boils at 100°C.
- when a kettle, pan, etc. boils or when you boil a kettle, etc., it is heated until the water inside it boils
- The kettle's boiling.
- I'll boil the kettle and make some tea.
- Cover the pot and let it boil gently for 25 minutes.
- She left the gas on by mistake and the pan boiled dry (= the water boiled until there was none left).
Extra Examples- I'll put the kettle on to boil.
- The kettle's boiled. Do you want some tea?
- Boil a large pan of salted water.
- to cook or wash something in boiling water; to be cooked or washed in boiling water
- She put some potatoes on to boil.
- boiled carrots/cabbage/potatoes
- to boil an egg for somebody
- to boil somebody an egg
Extra Examples- She can scarcely boil an egg.
- Boil the beans rapidly for ten minutes.
- if you boil with anger, etc. or anger, etc. boils inside you, you are very angry
- He was boiling with rage.
- She wanted to give vent to the fury boiling within her.
- to attempt to do something very difficult or impossible
- Don't try to boil the ocean by supporting every device imaginable.
- to make somebody extremely angry
- The way he treats his employees really makes my blood boil.
- used to say that when you are impatient for something to happen, time seems to pass very slowly
Word Origin- verb Middle English: from Old French boillir, from Latin bullire ‘to bubble’, from bulla ‘bubble’.
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