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English to English noun
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a painful sore with a hard core filled with pus |  | source: wordnet30
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the temperature at which a liquid boils at sea level | | Example: they brought the water to a boil
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Act or state of boiling. | | source: webster1913
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A hard, painful, inflamed tumor, which, on suppuration, discharges pus, mixed with blood, and discloses a small fibrous mass of dead tissue, called the core. | | source: webster1913 verb
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come to the boiling point and change from a liquid to vapor | | Example: Water boils at 100 degrees Celsius
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immerse or be immersed in a boiling liquid, often for cooking purposes | | Example: boil potatoes
boil wool
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bring to, or maintain at, the boiling point | | Example: boil this liquid until it evaporates
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be agitated | | Example: the sea was churning in the storm
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be in an agitated emotional state | | Example: The customer was seething with anger
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To be agitated, or tumultuously moved, as a liquid by the generation and rising of bubbles of steam (or vapor), or of currents produced by heating it to the boiling point; to be in a state of ebullition; as, the water boils. | | source: webster1913
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To heat to the boiling point, or so as to cause ebullition; as, to boil water. | | source: webster1913
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