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Adjective: boiled  boyld
  1. Cooked in hot water
    "The cook book has practical methods of using boiled beef";
    - poached, stewed
Verb: boil  boyl
  1. Come to the boiling point and change from a liquid to vapour
    "Water boils at 100 degrees Celsius"
     
  2. Bring to, or maintain at, the boiling point
    "boil this liquid until it evaporates"
     
  3. Immerse or be immersed in a boiling liquid, often for cooking purposes
    "boil potatoes"; "boil wool"
     
  4. Be agitated
    "the sea was boiling in the storm";
    - churn, moil [N. Amer], roil
     
  5. Feel intense but often unexpressed anger or agitation
    "The customer was boiling with anger";
    - seethe

See also: cooked

Type of: alter, change, change state, experience, feel, modify, move, turn

Antonym: freeze

Encyclopedia: Boiled

Boil, Bulgaria