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BROIL

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Cooking by direct exposure to radiant heat (as over a fire or under a grill)

Synonyms:

broil; broiling; grilling

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("broil" is a kind of...):

cookery; cooking; preparation (the act of preparing something (as food) by the application of heat)

Derivation:

broil (cook under a broiler)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Cook under a broiler

Example:

broil fish

Synonyms:

broil; oven broil

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "broil" is one way to...):

grill (cook over or under a grill)

Domain category:

cookery; cooking; preparation (the act of preparing something (as food) by the application of heat)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "broil"):

pan-broil (broil in a pan)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s something

Sentence example:

The chefs broil the vegetables

Derivation:

broil (cooking by direct exposure to radiant heat (as over a fire or under a grill))

broiler (an oven or part of a stove used for broiling)

broiler (flesh of a small young chicken not over 2 1/2 lb suitable for broiling)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Heat by a natural force

Example:

The sun broils the valley in the summer

Synonyms:

bake; broil

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "broil" is one way to...):

heat; heat up (make hot or hotter)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something

Sense 3

Meaning:

Be very hot, due to hot weather or exposure to the sun

Example:

the tourists were baking in the heat

Synonyms:

bake; broil

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Hypernyms (to "broil" is one way to...):

be (have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun))

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s

Credits

 Context examples: 

A Flandrish hat of beevor, bearing in the band the token of Our Lady of Embrun, was drawn low upon the left side to hide that ear which had been partly shorn from his head by a Flemish man-at-arms in a camp broil before Tournay.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The next day was broiling, almost the last, certainly the warmest, of the summer.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)