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BOILED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Cooked in hot water
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Similar:
cooked (having been prepared for eating by the application of heat)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb boil
Context examples:
They dined in the best room, and had oats boiled in milk for the second course, which the old horse ate warm, but the rest cold.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
When her hands were not hard from the endless housework, they were swollen and red like boiled beef, what of the washing.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
On the other hand, since the planets are so close to the star, they have soaked up billions of years of high-energy radiation, which could have boiled off atmospheres and large amounts of water.
(TRAPPIST-1 is Older Than Our Solar System, NASA/JPL)
Few children can eat when excited with the thoughts of a journey; nor could I. Bessie, having pressed me in vain to take a few spoonfuls of the boiled milk and bread she had prepared for me, wrapped up some biscuits in a paper and put them into my bag; then she helped me on with my pelisse and bonnet, and wrapping herself in a shawl, she and I left the nursery.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
To atone for this conduct therefore, Elinor took immediate possession of the post of civility which she had assigned herself, behaved with the greatest attention to Mrs. Jennings, talked with her, laughed with her, and listened to her whenever she could; and Mrs. Jennings on her side treated them both with all possible kindness, was solicitous on every occasion for their ease and enjoyment, and only disturbed that she could not make them choose their own dinners at the inn, nor extort a confession of their preferring salmon to cod, or boiled fowls to veal cutlets.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
The air about him thickened and grew white while he made a fire and boiled more water.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
The boiled tea was very bitter, the omelet scorched, and the biscuits speckled with saleratus, but Mrs. March received her repast with thanks and laughed heartily over it after Jo was gone.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
I would not recommend an egg boiled by any body else; but you need not be afraid, they are very small, you see—one of our small eggs will not hurt you.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
I laid in a stock of boiled flesh, of rabbits and fowls, and took with me two vessels, one filled with milk and the other with water.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
In front of the house was a great stone trough, so she said to the child: “Take the pail, Red-Cap; I made some sausages yesterday, so carry the water in which I boiled them to the trough.”
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
