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

1. verb. 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.
2. verb. To be agitated like boiling water, by any other cause than heat; to bubble; to effervesce; as, the boiling waves.
3. verb. To pass from a liquid to an aeriform state or vapor when heated; as, the water boils away.
4. verb. To be moved or excited with passion; to be hot or fervid; as, his blood boils with anger.
5. verb. To be in boiling water, as in cooking; as, the potatoes are boiling.
6. transitive verb. To heat to the boiling point, or so as to cause ebullition; as, to boil water.
7. transitive verb. To form, or separate, by boiling or evaporation; as, to boil sugar or salt.
8. transitive 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.
9. transitive verb. To steep or soak in warm water.
10. noun. Act or state of boiling.
11. noun. 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.
12. noun. the temperature at which a liquid boils at sea level

    "they brought the water to a boil"

13. noun. a painful sore with a hard core filled with pus

    Synonyms: furuncle

14. verb. immerse or be immersed in a boiling liquid, often for cooking purposes

    "boil potatoes"

    "boil wool"

15. verb. bring to, or maintain at, the boiling point

    "boil this liquid until it evaporates"

16. verb. come to the boiling point and change from a liquid to vapor

    "Water boils at 100 degrees Celsius"

17. verb. be in an agitated emotional state

    "The customer was seething with anger"

    Synonyms: seethe

18. verb. be agitated

    "the sea was churning in the storm"

    Synonyms: churn, moil, roil

Synonyms

furuncle, seethe, churn, moil, roil

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in boil:

bilo, biol, lobi, obli

Common word forms

boils, boiled, boiler, boiling, boilable

Words from these letters

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