Synonyms for boil
- verb
- noun
Definitions
- v. 1
To heat to the point where it begins to turn into a gas.
Boil some water in a pan.
- v. 2
To be uncomfortably hot.
- v. 3
To feel uncomfortably hot.
I’m boiling in here – could you open the window?
- n. 1
A localized accumulation of pus in the skin, resulting from infection.
Related words
- Word family
- boiler
- Phrases
- boil down on the boil boil over boil someone's piss boil up
Example sentences
- cook Tom bought some expensive meat to cook for dinner.
- scorch Direct sun could scorch the leaves of the ivy.
- stew Tom said he didn't want to eat the stew Mary made.
- churn All those who churn the wind believe they can grow.
By length
- 2 letters
- do1
- 4 letters
- well1, born1, cook1, rage1, sore1, bake1, stew1, cyst1, fume1, roil1, plaw
- 5 letters
- churn1, ulcer2, moyle1
- 6 letters
- rising2, bubble2, simmer2, pimple2, fester2, scorch1, seethe1
- 7 letters
- abscess2, pustule, swelter2
- 8 letters
- furuncle
- 9 letters
- gathering3, carbuncle
- 10 letters
- effervesce
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (ulcer2 = 2 syllables).