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A hazardous situation where an attempt is made to extinguish semi-enclosed oil- or petrochemical-fuelled fire with water, generating steam which propels the burning fuel outwards..
[…] there was not much good horsemanship. The Derby itself was an ordinary race, something of a boilover for Dark Star […]
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Boilover means A hazardous situation where an attempt is made to extinguish semi-enclosed oil- or petrochemical-fuelled fire with water, generating steam which propels the burning fuel outwards..
The closest synonym depends on the sentence and intended sense.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
[…] there was not much good horsemanship. The Derby itself was an ordinary race, something of a boilover for Dark Star […]
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