different between boil vs overboil

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /b??l/
• Rhymes: -??l

Etymology 1

From Middle English bile, büle (“boil, tumor”), from Old English b?l, b?le (“boil, swelling”), from Proto-Germanic *b?lij?, *b?l? (“boil”). Akin to German Beule (“boil, hump”), Icelandic beyla (“swelling, hump”).

Noun

boil (plural boils)

1. A localized accumulation of pus in the skin, resulting from infection.

Synonyms

Derived terms

• sand boil (pathology)

Translations

Further reading

• Boil on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Etymology 2

From Middle English boillen, from Old French boillir (French: bouillir) from Latin bull?re, present active infinitive of bulli? (“I bubble, boil”), from bulla (“bubble”). Displaced native Middle English sethen (“to boil”) (from Old English s?oþan (“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.

Noun

boil (plural boils)

1. The point at which fluid begins to change to a vapour.

   Add the noodles when the water comes to the boil.

2. A dish of boiled food, especially based on seafood.
3. (rare, nonstandard) The collective noun for a group of hawks.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

boil (third-person singular simple present boils, present participle boiling, simple past and past participle boiled)

1. (transitive, of liquids) To heat to the point where it begins to turn into a gas.

2. (transitive, intransitive) To cook in boiling water.
3. (intransitive, of liquids) To begin to turn into a gas, seethe.

4. (transitive, Britain, informal) To bring to a boil, to heat so as to cause the contents to boil.
   • 1991, Stephen Fry, The Liar, p. 20–21:

     I'll boil the kettle.

5. (intransitive, informal, used only in progressive tenses, of weather) To be uncomfortably hot.

6. (intransitive, informal, used only in progressive tenses) To feel uncomfortably hot.

7. (transitive) To form, or separate, by boiling or evaporation.
8. (obsolete) To steep or soak in warm water.
9. To be agitated like boiling water; to bubble; to effervesce.
10. To be moved or excited with passion; to be hot or fervid.

Synonyms

• (of a liquid): seethe, well, plaw (UK, dialectal, dated, uncommon); see also Thesaurus:cook
• (of the weather): be baking, be scorching, be sweltering
• (of a person): be seething, be baking, be stewing

Antonyms

• (of a liquid): condense
• (of the weather): be freezing
• (of a person): be freezing

Derived terms

Related terms

• ebullient

Translations

See also

• bake
• condense
• freeze
• fry
• grill
• poach
• steam

Further reading

• Boiling on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• bilo, biol, biol., boli, lobi

English

Etymology

over- +? boil

Verb

overboil (third-person singular simple present overboils, present participle overboiling, simple past and past participle overboiled)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To boil excessively.

Antonyms

• underboil

Anagrams

• boil over, boilover