Word Meaning

Meaning of "boil" and the crossword clue

- Become heated
- Carbuncle
- Cook in hot water
- Cook in water
- Get to century by degrees and seethe with impatience
- Inflamed swelling
- Painful pustule; churn
- Skin eruption
- Skin swelling
- To be agitated, or tumultuously moved, as a liquid by the generation and rising of bubbles of steam (or vapor), or of currents produced by heating it to the boiling point; to be in a state of ebullition; as, the water boils.
- To be agitated like boiling water, by any other cause than heat; to bubble; to effervesce; as, the boiling waves.
- To pass from a liquid to an aeriform state or vapor when heated; as, the water boils away.
- To be moved or excited with passion; to be hot or fervid; as, his blood boils with anger.
- To be in boiling water, as in cooking; as, the potatoes are boiling.
- To heat to the boiling point, or so as to cause ebullition; as, to boil water.
- To form, or separate, by boiling or evaporation; as, to boil sugar or salt.
- To subject to the action of heat in a boiling liquid so as to produce some specific effect, as cooking, cleansing, etc.; as, to boil meat; to boil clothes.
- To steep or soak in warm water.
- Act or state of boiling.
- A hard, painful, inflamed tumor, which, on suppuration, discharges pus, mixed with blood, and discloses a small fibrous mass of dead tissue, called the core.