broil
verb /brɔɪl/
/brɔɪl/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they broil | /brɔɪl/ /brɔɪl/ |
| he / she / it broils | /brɔɪlz/ /brɔɪlz/ |
| past simple broiled | /brɔɪld/ /brɔɪld/ |
| past participle broiled | /brɔɪld/ /brɔɪld/ |
| -ing form broiling | /ˈbrɔɪlɪŋ/ /ˈbrɔɪlɪŋ/ |
- [transitive] broil something (North American English) to cook meat or fish under direct heat or over heat on metal bars
- broiled chicken
- [intransitive, transitive] broil (somebody) to become or make somebody become very hot
- They lay broiling in the sun.
Word Originlate Middle English (also in the sense ‘burn, char’): from Old French bruler ‘to burn’, of unknown origin.