boil over
— phrasal verb with boil uk/bɔɪl/us/bɔɪl/verb
(PERSON)
If a difficult situation or negative emotion boils over, it cannot be controlled any more and people start to argue or fight.
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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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(LIQUID)
If a liquid that is being heated boils over, it rises up and flows over the edge of the pan:
Take the milk off the heat before it boils over.
If a pan boils over, the liquid in it rises up and flows over the edge:
That saucepan is boiling over.
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Physical & chemical processes
- addition reaction
- adiabatic
- adsorb
- advection
- alpha decay
- corrode
- degradable
- diffraction
- dissolve
- exothermic reaction
- impregnate
- processus
- redox
- refraction
- rehydrate
- saponification
- scald
- secretion
- suction
- the carbon cycle
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