📒 when a liquid boils or when you boil it, it is heated to the point where it forms bubbles and turns to steam or vapour
- The water was bubbling and boiling away.
- boil something Boil plenty of salted water, then add the spaghetti.
- Boil the water for five minutes to sterilize it.
📒 when a kettle, pan, etc. boils or when you boil a kettle, etc., it is heated until the water inside it boils
- (British English) The kettle's boiling.
- boil something I'll boil the kettle and make some tea.
- Cover the pot and let it boil gently for 25 minutes.
📒 to cook or wash something in boiling water; to be cooked or washed in boiling water
- She put some potatoes on to boil.
- boil something boiled carrots/cabbage/potatoes
- to boil an egg for somebody
📒 if you boil with anger, etc. or anger, etc. boils inside you, you are very angry
- He was boiling with rage.
- She wanted to give vent to the fury boiling within her.
📒 to attempt to do something very difficult or impossible
- Don't try to boil the ocean by supporting every device imaginable.
📒 to make somebody extremely angry
- The way he treats his employees really makes my blood boil.
📒 used to say that when you are impatient for something to happen, time seems to pass very slowly