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• at or near boiling point.

• "boiling water"

Similar: at boiling point, steaming, bubbling, gurgling, evaporating, very hot, piping (hot), red hot, sizzling,

Opposite: cold, freezing,

• the action of bringing a liquid to the temperature at which it bubbles and turns to vapour.

• (with reference to a liquid) reach or cause to reach the temperature at which it bubbles and turns to vapour.

• "we asked people to boil their drinking water"

Similar: simmer, bubble, seethe, heat, cook, stew,

Opposite: freeze,

• (with reference to food) cook or be cooked by immersing in boiling water or stock.

• "boil the potatoes until well done"

Similar: bring to the boil, simmer, heat, cook,

Opposite: freeze,

• (of the sea or clouds) be turbulent and stormy.

• "she stood gazing out of the lighthouse window as the sea boiled beneath her"

Similar: be turbulent, be agitated, froth, foam, churn, seethe, bubble, fizz, effervesce, roil,

Origin: Middle English: from Old French boillir, from Latin bullire ‘to bubble’, from bulla ‘bubble’.