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View definitions for boiling

boiling

adjective as in very hot

adjective as in angered

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He first rose to prominence as a lawyer in Queens, who settled a boiling racial dispute over public housing in Forest Hills.

This is important in the concentration process, which takes place by means of an extraordinarily measured period of boiling.

Ground glass is put in food to cause internal bleeding, and nicotine concentrated by boiling can cause a heart attack.

As infants, my kids ate food right off the floor without washing or boiling.

Mr. Wynd said the shrinking process includes filling the head with hot sand and boiling it with herbs.

The camp grew still, except for the rough and ready cook pottering about the fire, boiling buffalo-meat and mixing biscuit-dough.

The color does not disappear upon boiling, which excludes diacetic acid.

She was boiling mullets over a few red coals in the huge fireplace.

Starch is insoluble in cold water, but by boiling, it dissolves, forming a thick paste.

It dissolves readily in cold water, and is converted into sugar by long continued boiling with acids.

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On this page you'll find 62 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to boiling, such as: baking, fiery, scalding, scorching, sizzling, and blistering.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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