boiling

[US]/'bɒɪlɪŋ/
[UK]/'bɔɪlɪŋ/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

adj. extremely hot; very excited
n. the act of boiling; the state of being boiled; bubbling up.

Phrases & Collocations

boiling water

boiling point

boiling hot

boiling rage

boiling over

boiling with anger

boiling mad

boiling blood

boiling passion

boiling kettle

high boiling

nucleate boiling

low boiling point

film boiling

boiling temperature

boiling range

initial boiling point

boiling point elevation

normal boiling point

Example Sentences

a kettle of boiling water.

The milk is boiling over.

Saturday is forecast to be boiling and sunny.

steep the tea in boiling water

The pot is boiling away on the fire.

The milk's boiling over!

Mother is boiling rice.

Trouble was boiling up in the Middle East.

Concentrate the broth by boiling it.

the extremes of boiling and freezing.

fainted because it was boiling hot; boiling mad over the mistake.

Cook the pasta in a large pan of boiling water.

deftly fished the corn out of the boiling water.

I was boiling hot and sweaty.

a huge cliff with the black sea boiling below.

racial tension surged to boiling point.

boiling with soda will reduce your peas to pulp.

sugar was refined by boiling it in huge iron vats.

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