Dictionary Entry
boil
boil is a 4-letter English word with 18 senses as verb, transitive verb, and noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To be agitated, or tumultuously moved, as a liquid by the generation and rising of bubbles of steam (or vapor), or of currents produced by heating it to the boiling point; to be in a state of ebullition; as, the water boils. Face value is 6 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
4 letters · Scrabble 6 · Words With Friends 8 · 18 senses
Definitions
- 1verb
To be agitated, or tumultuously moved, as a liquid by the generation and rising of bubbles of steam (or vapor), or of currents produced by heating it to the boiling point; to be in a state of ebullition; as, the water boils.
- 2verb
To be agitated like boiling water, by any other cause than heat; to bubble; to effervesce; as, the boiling waves.
- 3verb
To pass from a liquid to an aeriform state or vapor when heated; as, the water boils away.
- 4verb
To be moved or excited with passion; to be hot or fervid; as, his blood boils with anger.
- 5verb
To be in boiling water, as in cooking; as, the potatoes are boiling.
- 6transitive verb
To heat to the boiling point, or so as to cause ebullition; as, to boil water.
- 7transitive verb
To form, or separate, by boiling or evaporation; as, to boil sugar or salt.
- 8transitive verb
To subject to the action of heat in a boiling liquid so as to produce some specific effect, as cooking, cleansing, etc.; as, to boil meat; to boil clothes.
- 9transitive verb
To steep or soak in warm water.
- 10noun
Act or state of boiling.
- 11noun
A hard, painful, inflamed tumor, which, on suppuration, discharges pus, mixed with blood, and discloses a small fibrous mass of dead tissue, called the core.
- 12noun
the temperature at which a liquid boils at sea level
"they brought the water to a boil"
- 13noun
a painful sore with a hard core filled with pus
Synonyms
- 14verb
immerse or be immersed in a boiling liquid, often for cooking purposes
"boil potatoes"
"boil wool"
- 15verb
bring to, or maintain at, the boiling point
"boil this liquid until it evaporates"
- 16verb
come to the boiling point and change from a liquid to vapor
"Water boils at 100 degrees Celsius"
- 17verb
be in an agitated emotional state
"The customer was seething with anger"
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- 18verb
be agitated
"the sea was churning in the storm"
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