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PARBOIL
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I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they parboil ... he / she / it parboils
Past simple: parboiled
Past participle: parboiled
-ing form: parboiling
Sense 1
Meaning:
Cook (vegetables) briefly
Example:
Parboil the beans before freezing them
Synonyms:
blanch; parboil
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "parboil" is one way to...):
cook (transform and make suitable for consumption by heating)
Domain category:
cookery; cooking; preparation (the act of preparing something (as food) by the application of heat)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Sentence example:
The chefs parboil the vegetables
Context examples:
Parboiling husked whole grain, on the other hand, not only reduces arsenic by 25 per cent, but also increases its calcium content significantly, according to the researchers from Bangladesh and Northern Ireland.
(Parboiling husked rice reduces arsenic content, SciDev.Net)
