Boil

Definition: Boil

Boil

Noun

1. A painful sore with a hard pus-filled core.

2. The temperature at which a liquid boils at sea level: "the brought to water to a boil".

Verb

1. Come to the boiling point and change from a liquid to vapor; "Water boils at 100 degrees Celsius".

2. Cook in boiling liquid; "boil potatoes".

3. Bring to, or maintain at, the boiling point, as of water and other liquids; "boil this liquid until it evaporates".

4. Be agitated; of liquids.

5. Have violent emotions, such as anger or frustration.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "boil" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references)

Bible

Electrical Engineering

Industry

Metallurgy

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BOIL

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Synonyms: Boil

Agitation

Ferment, effervesce, foam; boil, boil over; bubble up; simmer.

Bubble

Verb: bubble, boil, foam, froth, mantle, sparkle, guggle, gurgle; effervesce, ferment, fizzle.

Convexity

Pimple, zit; wen, wheel, papula, pustule, pock, proud flesh, growth, sarcoma, caruncle, corn, wart, pappiloma, furuncle, polypus, fungus, fungosity, exostosis, bleb, blister, blain; boil; (disease); airbubble, blob, papule, verruca.

Disease

Sore, ulcer, abscess, fester, boil; pimple, wen; (swelling); carbuncle, gathering, imposthume, peccant humor, issue; rot, canker, cold sore, fever sore; cancer, carcinoma, leukemia, neoplastic disease, malignancy, tumor; caries, mortification, corruption, gangrene, sphacelus, sphacelation, leprosy; eruption, rash, breaking out.

Excitability

Lose one's temper; break out, burst out, fly out; go off, fly off, fly off at a tangent, fly off the handle, lose one's cool; explode, flare up, flame up, fire up, burst into a flame, take fire, fire, burn; boil, boil over; foam, fume, rage, rave, rant, tear; go wild, run wild, run mad, go into hysterics; run riot, run amuck; battre la campagne, faire le diable a quatre, play the deuce.

Excitation

Be excited; Adjective: flush up, flare up; catch the infection; thrill; (feel); mantle; work oneself up; seethe, boil, simmer, foam, fume, flame, rage, rave; run mad; (passion).

Heat

Verb: be hot. Adjective: glow, flush, sweat, swelter, bask, smoke, reek, stew, simmer, seethe, boil, burn, blister, broil, blaze, flame; smolder; parch, fume, pant.

Resentment

Chafe, mantle, fume, kindle, fly out, take fire; boil, boil over; boil with indignation, boil with rage; rage, storm, foam, vent one's rage, vent one's spleen; lose one's temper, stand on one's hind legs, stamp the foot, stamp with rage, quiver with rage, swell with rage, foam with rage; burst with anger; raise Cain.

Vaporization

Bubble, sparge, effervesce, boil.

Violence

Explode, make a row, kick up a row; boil, boil over; fume, foam, come on like a lion, bluster, rage, roar, fly off the handle, go bananas, go ape, blow one's top, blow one's cool, flip one's lid, hit the ceiling, hit the roof; fly into a rage (anger).

Crosswords: Boil

Scottish (fury, madness, passion, rage).

Po-ta-toes. Boil 'em, mash 'em, put 'em in a stew (The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers; writing credit: Frances Walsh)

Let's see you acknowledge a man whose words make your blood boil who is standing center stage advocating at the top of his lungs that which you would spend a lifetime opposing at the top of yours (The American President; writing credit: Aaron Sorkin)

And you must be the man who didn't know if he had a pimple or a boil! (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge)

when she's dead boil her head, make it into gingerbread (Mumsy, Nanny, Sonny and Girly; writing credit: Brian Comport; Maisie Mosco)

So go boil an egg. (Payback; writing credit: Brian Helgeland)

Smell those shrimp they're beginnin' to boil (Margaritaville; performing artist: JIMMY BUFFET)

But the kettle's on the boil and we're so easily called away (Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey; performing artist: Paul McCartney)

How do you get holy water?  Boil the hell out of it. (references; author: unknown)

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Books

• Bring to a Boil and Separate (reference)

• Doctor on the Boil (reference)

• Doctors in the Movies: Boil the Water and Just Say Aah (reference)

• Fluidized-bed energy technology : coming to a boil (reference)

• How to Boil an Egg and 156 Other Simple Recipes for One (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Boil (reference)

• Boil the Breakfast Early (reference)

• Chieftains 9: Boil the Breakfast Early [ORIGINAL RECORDING REMASTERED] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Consumer Goods

• Black & Decker JCK460 Smart Boil 1.5-Liter Cordless Electric Kettle (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

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From an overhead angle, red diagonal letters reading: "Bake, broil, boil and steam foods instead of frying" sit on a grill. The letters are surrounded by fish, corn, beans and red/yellow peppers on a skewer. Shot on 4x5 format. This was used in the 1989 calendar "Eat for Good Health" July 1989. See artwork: PV-19. Credit: Bill Branson (photographer).

Plague victim in bed pointing out to three physicians the swell or boil under his armpit. Credit: Library of Congress.

Crab boil, Raceland, Louisiana. Credit: Library of Congress.

Residents of Raceland, Louisiana, eating crabs at crab boil. Credit: Library of Congress.

Drinking at the bar, crab boil night, Raceland, Louisiana. Credit: Library of Congress.

Illuminated clock in Raceland, Louisiana, saloon. Note advertisement of crab boil. Credit: Library of Congress.

On the California-Arizona state line near Yuma, Arizona, migratory cotton pickers are required by the plant inspection service at the border to boil their cotton sacks before they are permitted to bring them into the state of California. Credit: Library of Congress.

Fats are fuel for fighters Bake, boil, and broil more - fry less. Credit: Library of Congress.

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The Faubourg Saint Antoine sullenly warmed up, was beginning to boil.

The fires started and supper was put on to boil or to fry.

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Health

Heating the water to a rolling boil for at least 1 minute. (references)

Heating water at a rolling boil for 1 minute kills Crypto, according to CDC and EPA scientists. (references)

Angulo FJ, Tippen S, Sharp DJ, et al. A community waterborne outbreak of salmonellosis and the effectiveness of a boil water order. (references)

Economic History

Kenya

Visitors are advised to filter and boil (or distill) drinking water, or purchase bottled water. (references)

Travel

Bolivia

Sanitary conditions throughout the country are such that it is advisable to boil water at least 20 minutes or to consume only bottled water, refuse ice, and treat fresh fruits and vegetables. (references)

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Expressions using "boil": A blind boil ♦ Aleppo boil ♦ atmospheric boil ♦ Biskara boil ♦ boil again ♦ boil away ♦ boil down ♦ boil down to ♦ boil down/to ♦ boil dry ♦ boil for a while ♦ boil over ♦ boil smut ♦ boil thoroughly ♦ boil up ♦ boil up again ♦ boil with rage ♦ bring to the boil ♦ come off the boil ♦ come to boil ♦ come to the boil ♦ Delhi boil ♦ frost boil ♦ go boil your head! ♦ hot enough to boil an egg ♦ lance a boil ♦ make one's blood boil ♦ Natal boil ♦ To boil away ♦ To boil down ♦ To boil over. Additional references.

Beginning with "boil": boil-covered, boil-infested, boil-in-the, boil-in-the-bag, boil-necked, boil-off, boil-pitted, boil-washed.

Ending with "boil": gum-boil, par-boil, pre-boil, re-boil.

Containing "boil": kier-boil-hypochlorite.

Afrikaans

kook (cook). (various references)

Albanian

ziej (boil over, effervesce, poach, seethe, simmer, stew), vlim, valoj, lungë (abscess, carbuncle, swelling, warble), gufon (eject, erupt, expel, heave, spout, spring, spurt, vomit), gatuaj me ujë të valuar, avulloj (boil down, vaporize, volatilize), çiban. (various references)

Arabic 

‏فور غضبا, ‏غلى (boil over, boiling, fizzle, seethe), ‏حبة (berry, grain), ‏سلق (coddle, parboil, scald, seethe), ‏إهتاج (be agitated, be excited, be nervous, be upset, effervesce, ferment, flurry, flutter, fuss, seethe, simmer), ‏شكل (accentuate, cast, categorize, comprise, constitute, dot, fashion, form, formalize, format, frame, guise, likeness, make, modality, mode, model, mold, mould, punctuate, put together, semblance, shape, sort, style, trace, vocalize, way), ‏دمل (cicatrize, fester, furuncle). (various references)

Asturian

cocer (to boil). (various references)

Bemba

ukubila (to boil). (various references)

Blackfoot

innihtaa (to boil food). (various references)

Bulgarian 

цирей (fester, gathering), точка на кипене (boiling point), кипя (churn, effervesce, ferment, seethe, wallop, work), кипене (boiling, ebullition, effervescence, effervescency, ferment, gurgitation), вря (wallop), врене (boiling), варя (brew, still), завирам (thrust, thrust in), изварям. (various references)

Cebuano

magpabukal (to boil). (various references)

Chamorro

para ma chankocha (to boil). (various references)

Chinese 

煮熟 , 煮沸 (Boiled, boiling), 燒開 , 疔 (carbuncle), 瘩 (scab, sore), 沸 . (various references)

Cornish

bryjyon (to boil). (various references)

Czech

vyvařit (scald), vřed (ulcer), vařit se (cook, seethe), uvařit (boil down, boil up, cook, cook up, do), nežit, kypìt (exude). (various references)

Danish

koge (cook). (various references)

Dutch

koken (cook), borrelen (bubble). (various references)

Ecuadorian Quechua

tinpuna (to boil). (various references)

Esperanto

boligi, boli, dekokti. (various references)

Faeroese

kóka (cook), fáa at kóka. (various references)

Farsi 

هیجان (Dither, Fit, Ignition, Lather, Thrill, Tornado, Unco), کورک (Blotch, Pimple), تحریک (Incitement, Instigation, Persuasion, Provacation, Stimulus), خشمگین شدن , جوشاندن (Bubble, Decoction, Seethe), جوش (Effervescence, Eruption, Gush, Pimple, Rash, Simmer, Solder, Spout, Weld), التهاب (Tumult), دمل (Abscess, Blotch, Wen), بجوش امدن (Simmer). (various references)

Finnish

kiehua (to seethe). (various references)

French

bouillir. (various references)

Frisian

siede (to cook). (various references)

German

kochen (be boiling, boiling, brew, cook, cookery, cooking, do the cooking, fume, make, seethe, simmer, swelter, to boil, to cook), sieden (seethe, simmer, to boil, to simmer), wallen (flow, surge, undulate), Beule (buckle, bulge, bump, Dent, dint, indent, indentation, lump). (various references)

Greek 

βράζω (brew, decoct, effervesce, ferment, malt, seethe). (various references)

Haitian Creole

bouyi. (various references)

Hebrew 

להרתיח (enrage, heat, infuriate), לבשל (cook, stew), לבשול (cook, ripen), לרתוח (be enraged, be furious, seethe), חבורה (bruise, bump, wound), רתיחה (agitation, boiling, ebullience, excitement, rage, simmer). (various references)

Hungarian

forráspont (boiling point, steam point), kelés (abscess, blotch, carbuncle, fester, job's comforter), furunkulus (anthraces, anthrax, job's comforter), forr (seethe, to boil, to brew, to effervesce, to seethe, to yeast). (various references)

Icelandic

sjóða (cook). (various references)

Indonesian

bisul (abscess, blaim, blotch, carbuncle, gall, protuberance, pustule), barah, merebus (decoct, poach), menggolak (brew), godog, didih. (various references)

Inuktitut

qalaaluni (to boil). (various references)

Irish

fiuch. (various references)

Italian

bollire (seethe). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

膿瘍 (abscess), 脹れ (swelling), 疽腫 (swelling), 湯煮 , 根太 (joist), 吹き出物 (acne, pimple), 吹出物 (acne, pimple), 出物 (rash, secondhand article), 出来物 (able man, abscess, fine man, growth, pimple, rash, tumour, ulcer). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

そしょう (lawsuit, litigation, swelling), ねぶと, ふきでもの (acne, pimple), のうよう (abscess), できもの (abscess, growth, pimple, rash, tumour, ulcer), でもの (rash, secondhand article), でけもの (abscess, growth, pimple, rash, tumour, ulcer), ゆに, はれ (clear weather, swelling). (various references)

Kongo

ku-fukusa (to boil). (various references)

Korean 

헌데. (various references)

Macedonian

vari (to boil). (various references)

Manx

mamm (blain, blister, nipple), gaer (pain), cloie (act, bubble, charade, enact, event, extemporise, game, match, monkey, perform, performance, play, represent, skylark, sport), broie (effervesce, effervescence, overdo, parch, seethe, stew), askaid (sea anemone, sea squirt, ulcer). (various references)

Maori

koropupuu (to boil). (various references)

Maya

chaak (pot of food, rain, to boil, woodcutter). (various references)

Norwegian

koke. (various references)

Papago

posholt (to boil food), ku'iwonith (to boil). (various references)

Pig Latin

oilbay.(various references)

Portuguese

fervura (boiling, fluster), ebulição (boiling, ebullience, ebulliency, ebullition). (various references)

Provencal

bolir (to boil). (various references)

Quechua

wayk'unacheq (let's boil). (various references)

Romanian

fierbe (bubble over, cook, effervesce, ferment, fizz, heat, poach, pot, rage, resound, roar, seethe, simmer, torment, torture). (various references)

Romansch

buglir (to boil). (various references)

Romany

keravav (to boil). (various references)

Ruanda

kubirisha (to boil). (various references)

Russian 

фурункул (anbury, furuncle), клокотать (bubble over, seethe), кипятиться, кипятить (simmer), кипеть (bubble, seethe), кипение (boiling, ebullience, ebulliency, ebullition), вскипятить, вариться, варить (brew). (various references)

Samoan

e saka (to boil). (various references)

Scottish

bruich (cook, prepare food, ready as food, roast, roasted). (various references)

Sepedi

bedia
a (to boil). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

vreti (bubble, ferment, simmer), skuvati (brew, cook), prokuvati, ključati (bubble, seethe, wallop), ključanje (boiling, gurgitation), kipeti (seethe, wallop), iskuvati. (various references)

Shona

-vira (to boil). (various references)

Spanish

hervir (boil up, burble, cooking, seethe, simmer, surge), furúnculo (furuncle). (various references)

Swazi

kú-bila (to boil). (various references)

Swedish

koka (clod, cook, scald, seethe), kokning (boiling, cooking, ebullition), böld (abscess, carbuncle, furuncle, ulcer). (various references)

Thai

เดือด, ทำให้เดือด. (various references)

Turkish

son radde, kaynatmak (coddle, keep at a simmer, poach, scald), kaynamak (abound, boil away, bubble up, come to the boil, conglutinate, join, seethe, spill over with, swarm, teem, weld, well), köpürmek (be hopping mad, boil over, bubble, churn, cream, effervesce, explode, fizz, fly off the handle, foam, froth, lather, rage, ramp, ramp and rage, seethe, sparkle, yeast), kızışma (becoming hot, escalation, heat, heating, rut, rutting), haşlanmak, haşlamak (baste, bawl out, berate, blanch, call smb. over the coals, carpet, give smb. a talking-to, scald, scold, seethe, upbraid), galeyana gelmek (be agitated, boil over, effervesce), galeyan (agitation, ebullience, ebulliency, ebullition, effervescence, rage, simmer), fokurdatmak, fokurdamak (boil up, bubble, bubble up, spit, wallop), çıban (abscess, blain, fistula, gathering, swelling). (various references)

Turkmen 

baю (head), gaяnatmak, gaяnamak, зyban (furnucle). (various references)

Ukrainian

хвилювання (agitation, bubble, care, disturbance, excitation, feeze, fermentation, fizzle, heartbeat, perturbation, pother, pucker, stirring, swell, throb, uproar), фурункул (furuncle), шаленість (frenzy), кіп'ятити, кипіти (blaze, bubble, seethe), кипіння (boiling, ebullience, ebulliency, ebullition, seethe), гарячитися, вирувати, вир (hurl, maelstrom, profound, swirl, whirligig). (various references)

Vietnamese 

sự sôi (ebullition), đinh, điểm sôi (boilling-point). (various references)

Welsh

berwi (effervesce, seethe). (various references)

Zulu

-bila. (various references)

aestuabat, aestuabit, aestuaverunt, aestuavit, bullas, bullire, ebulliet, ebullire, ebullivit, excoquam, excoxi, fervefacio, ferveo. (various references)

uzdâtât. (various references)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "boil": boilable, boiled, boiler, boilermaker, boilermakers, boilerplate, boilerplates, boilers, boilersuit, boilersuits, boiling, boiloff, boiloffs, boils. (additional references)

Words ending with "boil": aboil, garboil, gumboil, overboil, parboil, potboil, preboil, reboil, upboil. (additional references)

Words containing "boil": garboils, gumboils, overboiled, overboiling, overboils, parboiled, parboiling, parboils, potboiled, potboiler, potboilers, potboiling, potboils, preboiled, preboiling, preboils, reboiled, reboiling, reboils, upboiled, upboiling, upboils. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Boil" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: baii, Baill, baiq, begil, beil, beol, bihl, Bijl, Bikila, bil, bili, bilio, bilo, bioa, biol, Biolm, biolo, biop, bioq, Biox, bioy, boai, boal, boald, Bocij, bocil, Bodil, Boell, boelo, bofil, Bohi, Bohill, boi, boia, boid, boie, boii, boild, Boilly, boilt, boily, boin, boir, boit, boix, boiz, boki, bol, boli, Bolic, bolid, bolin, Bomi, bonil, bonily, Booi, bopi, Bouiali, boula, boull, Bovill, bovl, boxily, boyl, boyla, boyld, bril, Bueil, buel, buial, buik, byill, Cbiol, Jbeil, loil, Obel, obli, obliv, obol, zoil. (additional references)

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: bio, lib, lob, obi, oil.

-2 letters: bi, bo, li, lo.

+1 letter: aboil, bilbo, boils, broil, cibol, limbo, obeli, oboli.

+2 letters: albino, bailor, bifold, bilboa, bilbos, billon, billow, blooie, bodily, boiled, boiler, boleti, bolide, bollix, broils, cibols, colobi, diobol, emboli, foible, globin, goblin, libido, limbos, mobile, obelia, oblige, reboil, upboil.

+3 letters: abolish, aboulia, aboulic, albinos, bailors, bailout, bibelot, bicolor, bifocal, bilboas, bilboes, bilious, billion, billons, billows, billowy, bilobed, biltong, bimodal, binocle, biology, bipolar, bizonal, blowier, blowing, bobtail, boilers, boiling, boiloff, bolides, bolivar, bolivia, bolling, bolshie, bolting, bonnily, boozily, bossily, botulin, bowlike, bowline, bowling, boxlike, bricole, bristol, brocoli, broiled, broiler, bucolic, bullion, cabildo, ciboule, coalbin, corbeil, diabolo, diobols, ecbolic, embolic, embroil, epiboly, foibles, garboil, globing, globins, globoid, goblins, gumboil, hoblike, hobnail, holibut, ignoble, ignobly, inkblot, kilobar, kilobit, kolbasi, labroid, libidos, linkboy, lobbied, lobbies, lobbing, lobefin, lobelia, loobies, mailbox, mobiles, nobbily, nombril, obelias, obelise, obelisk, obelism, obelize, oblasti, obliged, obligee, obliger, obliges, obligor, oblique, oilbird, orbital, parboil, pillbox, potboil, preboil, reboils, strobil, subsoil, tabloid, tabouli, upboils.