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boil

noun as in blister

verb as in heat to bubbling

verb as in be angry

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Example Sentences

Fill the pot with warm water so the jars are covered by an inch or two, and bring it to a boil.

Fill your pot with water until it’s nearly half full, and bring it to a boil.

Residents of Lake Jackson, where the boy contracted the amoeba after playing at a local water park, are under a boil water advisory.

The release says the process should take about two weeks, during which the boil water advisory will remain in place.

They are simply a boil on the rectum of humanity and should be treated as such.

Bring a large pot of water to a boil and season liberally with salt.

In conversation, her ideas emerge at a roiling boil that often takes on a momentum of its own.

Bring a large pot of salted water to a boil and add the string beans.

A curse-filled half hour that saw my blood boil as my filing deadline ticked further into the past.

Businesses are suffering more each day in an area where the rents are extortionate, and the situation could boil over soon.

Still he hung on, drawing himself upward to hook a leg over the very pipe that threatened to boil him alive.

When the Cave-men first learned to boil water, do you think they would think of boiling food?

Boil the oil and soap together in a pipkin, and then gradually stir in the sand and lemon-juice.

Like a boil, such a horse race as this must burst some day, and it was reaching the acute stage.

Let it boil in the suds for an hour or more, till the lace is clean and white all through.

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On this page you'll find 85 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to boil, such as: abscess, blain, blister, carbuncle, excrescence, and furuncle.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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