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boil

English

  1. 🔊 a painful sore with a hard core filled with pus
  2. 🔊 the temperature at which a liquid boils at sea level
    “they brought the water to a boil”
  3. 🔊 immerse or be immersed in a boiling liquid, often for cooking purposes
    “boil potatoes”
  4. 🔊 bring to, or maintain at, the boiling point
    “boil this liquid until it evaporates”
  5. 🔊 come to the boiling point and change from a liquid to vapor
    “Water boils at 100 degrees Celsius”
  6. 🔊 be in an agitated emotional state
    “The customer was seething with anger”
  7. 🔊 be agitated
    “the sea was churning in the storm”

Spanish

  1. 🔊 borbotar to boil
  2. 🔊 cocer to boil
  3. 🔊 herventar to boil
  4. 🔊 hervir to boil
  5. 🔊 bullir to boil, to bubble, to churn (to be agitated like boiling water; to bubble; to effervesce)

Similar words

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