Broil

Quick meaning: Broil is a verb meaning (transitive, Canada, US, obsolete in the UK) To cook by direct, radiant heat.

Meaning

(transitive, Canada, US, obsolete in the UK) To cook by direct, radiant heat.

More Meanings

1. (transitive, Canada, US) To expose to great heat.
2. (intransitive, Canada, US) To be exposed to great heat.
3. Food prepared by broiling.
4. (transitive) To cause a rowdy disturbance; embroil.
5. (intransitive, obsolete) To brawl.
6. (archaic) A brawl; a rowdy disturbance.

Example Sentences

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So, I am safe emerged from these broils! / Amid the wreck of thousands I am whole […]

To broil fish. To broil trout in a third way. When they are cleaned and washed, dry them well in a napkin. Then bind them about with packthread, sprinkle them with melted butter and salt, and broil them over a gentle fire, turning them from time to time.

"Away with this prating dotard," said Front-de Boeuf, "lock him up in the chapel, to tell his beads till the broil be over. It will be a new thing to the saints in Torquilstone to hear aves and paters; they have not been so honoured, I trow, since they were cut out of stone."

Word Forms

• broils
• broiling
• broiled
• broyl

Synonyms for broil

Depending on context, synonyms include skirmish, grill, bake, grilling.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include bake, grilling, hake, roast, carbone, grill.

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