Definitions for boil

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IPA: /bɔɪl/

Boil is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 30 anagrams from letters in boil (bilo).

Definitions for boil

noun

1. the act or an instance of boiling.
2. the state or condition of boiling:
3. an area of agitated, swirling, bubbling water, as part of a rapids.
4. Also called blow. Civil Engineering. an unwanted flow of water and solid matter into an excavation, due to excessive outside water pressure.
5. a painful, circumscribed inflammation of the skin or a hair follicle, having a dead, suppurating inner core: usually caused by a staphylococcal infection.

Idioms

1. boil off, Textiles. to degum (silk). to remove (sizing, wax, impurities, or the like) from a fabric by subjecting it to a hot scouring solution. Also, boil out.

Verb phrases

1. boil down, to reduce the quantity of by boiling off liquid. to shorten; abridge. to be simplifiable or summarizable as; lead to the conclusion that; point:
2. boil over, to overflow while boiling or as if while boiling; burst forth; erupt. to be unable to repress anger, excitement, etc.:

verb (used with object)

1. to cause to boil or to bring to the boiling point:
2. to cook (something) in boiling water:
3. to separate (sugar, salt, etc.) from a solution containing it by boiling off the liquid.

verb (used without object)

1. to change from a liquid to a gaseous state, producing bubbles of gas that rise to the surface of the liquid, agitating it as they rise.
2. to reach or be brought to the boiling point:
3. to be in an agitated or violent state:
4. to be deeply stirred or upset.
5. to contain, or be contained in, a liquid that boils:

Origin of boil

1250-1300; Middle English boillen Anglo-French, Old French boillir Latin bullīre to bubble, effervesce, boil, verbal derivative of bulla bubble

Examples for boil

Let it boil a quarter of an hour longer, and then send it to table with the meat in it.

Businesses are suffering more each day in an area where the rents are extortionate, and the situation could boil over soon.

boil it slowly a few minutes longer, and then put it into your tureen.

Get out before the show went off the boil, as some feel it has?

Bring a large pot of salted water to a boil and add the string beans.

Let it simmer awhile, but take it up before it comes to a boil.

But there is a middle way from clean-cut hunkdom to looking like a militia leader who might boil a hitchhiker alive.

Bring a large pot of water to a boil and season liberally with salt.

The captain had ordered Cooper to boil some pitch at the galley.

An' I hopes, ol girl,' says he, 'that you'll be able t' boil the water 'ithout burnin' it.'