Boil Definition
- freeze
- be happy
The point at which fluid begins to change to a vapour.
- furuncle
- boiling-point
- turgescency
- ebulliometer
- coction
- sore
- sinus
- pimple
- furunculosis
- furuncle. associated word: furuncular
- eruption
- anthrax
- lesion
- to evaporate as a result of boiling
- to lessen in quantity by boiling, esp. so as to change consistency
- to make more terse; condense; summarize
- to mean, when summarized; amount to
what it all boils down to is more unemployment
- to come to a boil and spill over the rim
- to lose one's temper; get excited
Origin of Boil
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Middle English boillen, from Old French boillir (French: bouillir) from Latin bullīre, present active infinitive of bulliō (“I bubble, boil”), from bulla (“bubble”). Displaced native Middle English sethen "to boil" (from Old English sēoþan "to boil, seethe"), Middle English wellen "to boil, bubble" (from Old English wiellan "to bubble, boil"), Middle English wallen "to well up, boil" (from Old English weallan "to well up, boil"). More at seethe, well.
From Wiktionary
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From Middle English bile, büle (“boil, tumor”), from Old English bȳl, bȳle (“boil, swelling”), from Proto-Germanic *būlijō, *būlō (“boil”). Akin to German Beule (“boil, hump”), Icelandic beyla (“swelling, hump”).
From Wiktionary
Middle English boillen from Old French boillir from Latin bullīre from bulla bubble
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
Middle English bile from Old English bȳle
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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