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单词 boil
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boilverb

uk/bɔɪl/us/bɔɪl/

boil verb (HEAT LIQUID)

A2 [ I or T ] to reach, or cause something to reach, the temperature at which a liquid starts to turn into a gas:

Liquid nitrogen boils at a very low temperature.
She scalded herself on some boiling water.
If you give water to a small baby to drink, you have to boil it first.

B1 [ I or T ] to heat a container, especially one used for cooking, until the liquid in it starts to turn into a gas:

The pan's boiling.
mainly UK Could you boil the kettle for me?

B1 [ T ] to cook food by putting it in water that is boiling:

I've boiled some potatoes for dinner.
boiled carrots
boil dry

If a container or food boils dry, all the liquid in the container in which the food was cooking turns to gas.

[ T ] to wash clothes in a container of very hot water

More examples

  • Ask Simon to cook the meal? Come off it, he can hardly boil an egg!
  • As water begins to boil, bubbles rise ever faster to the surface.
  • To make a thicker sauce, reduce the ingredients by boiling for five minutes.
  • Water boils at 212° Fahrenheit and 100° Celsius/Centigrade.
  • Stir the sauce gently until it begins to boil.

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Physical & chemical processes

  • addition reaction
  • adiabatic
  • adsorb
  • advection
  • alpha decay
  • condensation
  • degradable
  • diffraction
  • dissolve
  • exothermic reaction
  • impregnate
  • processus
  • redox
  • refraction
  • rehydrate
  • saponification
  • scald
  • secretion
  • suction
  • vaporize

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You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics:

Hot & heat
Preparing food using heat
Cleaning clothes

boil verb (BE ANGRY)

[ I usually continuous ] informal to be extremely angry:

He was boiling with rage.

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Becoming angry and expressing anger

  • (almost) burst a blood vessel idiom
  • -tempered
  • ape
  • ballistic
  • bananas
  • bay for blood idiom
  • get bent out of shape idiom
  • get your knickers in a twist idiom
  • go ape idiom
  • go nuts idiom
  • go off the deep end idiom
  • launch
  • lose
  • postal
  • sharp
  • storm
  • tempers get frayed idiom
  • turn in your grave idiom
  • umbrage
  • wobbly

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Idiom(s)

can't boil an egg

Phrasal verb(s)

boil away
boil (sth) down
boil sth down
boil down to sth
boil over
boil up
boil sth up

boilnoun

uk/bɔɪl/us/bɔɪl/

boil noun (SWELLING)

[ C ] a painful swelling on the skin that is filled with pus (= thick, yellow liquid)

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Skin complaints & blemishes

  • calloused
  • capillary telangiectasia
  • cradle cap
  • crusta lactea
  • dandruff
  • diaper rash
  • heat rash
  • hive
  • jaundice
  • lupus
  • pitted
  • prickle
  • pustule
  • rash
  • scabby
  • scar
  • sinus
  • spotty
  • ulcerated
  • verruca

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boil noun (HEAT)

[ S ] the act of washing or cooking something in very hot water

a/the boil

the state of boiling:

UK Bring the water to the boil, then add the pasta.
US Bring the water to a boil, then add the pasta.
Let the liquid come to a/the boil and then reduce the heat.

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Cleaning clothes

  • cleaner
  • clothes brush
  • clothes horse
  • clothes peg
  • clothesline
  • conditioner
  • dryer
  • iron
  • iron box
  • ironing
  • ironing board
  • launder
  • launderette
  • trouser press
  • tumble dryer
  • valet service
  • wash
  • washer
  • washer-dryer
  • white

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Preparing food using heat
Physical & chemical processes

Idiom(s)

go off the boil
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