boil

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English Vietnamese dictionary

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Advanced English dictionary

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verb, noun
+ verb
1 when a liquid boils or when you boil it, it is heated to the point where it forms bubbles and turns to steam or VAPOUR: [V] The water was bubbling and boiling away. + [VN] Boil plenty of salted water, then add the spaghetti.
2 when a KETTLE, pan, etc. boils or when you boil a KETTLE, etc., it is heated until the water inside it boils : [VN] I'll boil the kettle and make some tea. + [V] (BrE) The kettle's boiling. + [V-ADJ] She left the gas on by mistake and the pan boiled dry (= the water boiled until there was none left).
3 to cook or wash sth in boiling water; to be cooked or washed in boiling water: [V] She put some potatoes on to boil. + [VN] boiled carrots / cabbage + [VN, VNN] to boil an egg for sb + to boil sb an egg
4 [V] (written) if you boil with anger, etc. or anger, etc. boils inside you, you are very angry: He was boiling with rage. + She wanted to give vent to the fury boiling within her.
Idioms see BLOOD n.
Phrasal Verbs: boil down
boil sth<->down to be reduced or to reduce sth by boiling
boil sth down (to sth) to make sth, especially information, shorter by leaving out the parts that are not important: The original speech I had written got boiled down to about ten minutes.
boil down to sth (not used in the progressive tenses) (of a situation, problem, etc.) to have sth as a main or basic part: In the end, what it all boils down to is money, or the lack of it.
boil over
1 (of liquid) to boil and flow over the side of a pan, etc: The milk is boiling over.
2 (informal) to become very angry
3 (of a situation, an emotion, etc.) to change into sth more dangerous or violent
Synonym: EXPLODE
Racial tension finally boiled over in the inner city riots.
boil up if a situation or an emotion boils up, it becomes dangerous, worrying, etc: I could feel anger boiling up inside me.
boil sth<->up to heat a liquid or some food until it boils: She boiled up a large pan of water.
+ noun
1 [sing.] a period of boiling; the point at which liquid boils: (BrE) Bring the soup to the boil, then allow it to simmer for five minutes. + (AmE) Bring the soup to a boil. + The sauce should thicken as it comes to the boil.
2 [C] a painful infected swelling under the skin which is full of a thick yellow liquid (called PUS)
Idioms: off the boil (BrE) less good than before: The second series of the show really went off the boil.
on the boil very active: We have several projects all on the boil at once.

Thesaurus dictionary

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v.

1 bubble, seethe; simmer, stew, steam:

A pot of soup was boiling on the kitchen stove.

2 seethe, fume, sizzle, smoulder, chafe, fulminate, ferment, sputter, splutter, bluster:

When she learned what he had been saying about her, she boiled with furious indignation.

n.

abscess, carbuncle, pustule, Technical furuncle:

The doctor said the boil had to be lanced at once.

Collocation dictionary

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¹ the boil state of boiling

VERB + BOIL

come to

Just before the milk comes to the boil, turn down the heat.

| bring sth to

Bring the soup to the boil, then simmer for five minutes.

| go off

(usually figurative) He played brilliantly for the first set but then went rather off the boil.

² infected spot

VERB + BOIL

burst, lance

The doctor lanced the boil.

BOIL + VERB

erupt

A boil had erupted on his neck.

| burst

Concise English dictionary

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boils|boiled|boilingbɔɪl
noun
+a painful sore with a hard core filled with pus
+the temperature at which a liquid boils at sea level
verb
+come to the boiling point and change from a liquid to vapor
+cook in boiling liquid
+bring to, or maintain at, the boiling point
+be agitated
+be in an agitated emotional state

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