boiled

A2 Topic:Time
US /bɔɪld/
adj verb Freq #8932

Meanings

  1. 1
    adj

    Cooked in hot bubbling water.

    We had boiled potatoes with our dinner.

  2. 2
    verb

    Past tense and past participle of boil.

    She boiled the kettle to make some tea.

Thesaurus

Synonyms
1 adj · cooked in hot bubbling water. poachedstewed
Word family
Derived forms half-boilednonboiledpreboiledsemiboiledunboiled

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