Boils synonyms and antonyms

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churns
To stir, beat, or shake (milk or cream) in a churn
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seethes
To be violently excited or agitated:
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stews
(Intransitive or ergative) To cook (food) by slowly boiling or simmering.
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steams
To expose to steam, as in cooking.
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infuses
To flavor or scent (a liquid) by steeping ingredients in it:
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inflames
To set on fire; to kindle; to cause to burn, flame, or glow.
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festers
To fester is defined as to become worse, to become infected or to rot.
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effervesces
To escape from a liquid as bubbles; bubble up.
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cooks
To concoct or prepare; to tamper with or alter; to cook up.
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burns
To harden or impart a finish to by subjecting to intense heat; fire:
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burbles
To bubble; gurgle.
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bubbles
To rise to the surface:
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blotches
Any of several plant diseases caused by fungi and resulting in brown or black dead areas on leaves or fruit.
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blanches
(Cooking) To cook by dipping briefly into boiling water, then directly into cold water.
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sputters
(Physics) To coat (a solid surface) with metal atoms by sputtering.
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tumbles
To toss or whirl in a drum, tumbler, or tumbling box:
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surges
A coastal rise in water level caused by wind.
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ferments
To produce by or as if by fermentation.
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foams
A colloid in which particles of a gas are dispersed throughout a liquid.
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froths
To spit, vent, or eject, as froth.
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percolates
(Intransitive) To drain or seep through a porous substance.
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gurgles
To flow with a bubbling sound.
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sterilizes
Sterilize is defined as to make incapable of reproduction, or to make extremely clean.
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evaporates
To expel moisture from (usually by means of artificial heat), leaving the solid portion
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steeps
To soak in liquid, so as to soften, clean, extract the essence of, etc.
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brews
To make (tea, coffee, etc.) by infusing tea leaves, ground coffee beans, etc. with hot water
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heats
Heat is defined as to add warmth to something.
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scalds
To burn or injure with hot liquid or steam
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coddles
To cook (esp. eggs in the shell) gently by heating in water not quite at boiling temperature
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smolders
To burn with little smoke and no flame.
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freezes (antonym)
To convert into ice.
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rages (related)
To spread or prevail forcefully:
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fumes (related)
To emit fumes.
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calms (related)
To make or become calm or quiet:
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roils
To stir up; agitate
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Boils Sentence Examples

  • It all boils down to a matter of minutes, he'd heard his masters saying.

  • In the oxyhydrogen flame silver boils, forming a blue vapour, while platinum volatilizes slowly, and osmium, though infusible, very readily.

  • The wholesale jam manufacturers of the present day use this sugar; they boil the jam in vacuo and secure a product that will last a long time without deteriorating, but it lacks the delicacy and distinctive flavour of fruit preserved by a careful housekeeper, who boils it in an open pan with cane sugar to a less density, though exposed for a short time to a greater heat.

  • In boiling liquids its formation may be prevented by adding paraffin wax; the wax melts and forms a ring on the surface of the liquid, which boils tranquilly in the centre.

  • A liquid boils when its vapor pressure equals the superincumbent pressure; consequently any process which diminishes the external pressure must also lower the boiling-point.

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