Crossword-Solution: BOIL 4 letters, 289 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 6

Dictionary

Word	Word Type	Definition
Boil	v.	To be agitated, or tumultuously moved, as a liquid by the generation and rising of bubbles of steam (or vapor), or of currents produced by heating it to the boiling point; to be in a state of ebullition; as, the water boils.
Boil	v.	To be agitated like boiling water, by any other cause than heat; to bubble; to effervesce; as, the boiling waves.
Boil	v.	To pass from a liquid to an aeriform state or vapor when heated; as, the water boils away.
Boil	v.	To be moved or excited with passion; to be hot or fervid; as, his blood boils with anger.
Boil	v.	To be in boiling water, as in cooking; as, the potatoes are boiling.
Boil	v. t.	To heat to the boiling point, or so as to cause ebullition; as, to boil water.
Boil	v. t.	To form, or separate, by boiling or evaporation; as, to boil sugar or salt.
Boil	v. t.	To subject to the action of heat in a boiling liquid so as to produce some specific effect, as cooking, cleansing, etc.; as, to boil meat; to boil clothes.
Boil	v. t.	To steep or soak in warm water.
Boil	n.	Act or state of boiling.
Boil	n.	A hard, painful, inflamed tumor, which, on suppuration, discharges pus, mixed with blood, and discloses a small fibrous mass of dead tissue, called the core.

Anagrams

Word		Anagrams
BOIL	anagram	BILO, BIOL, BOLI, LOBI

We have 289 clues for the answer “BOIL”

Clue	Answers
"Bring to a ___" (recipe phrase)	1 answer
"Fillet of a fenny snake / In the cauldron __ and bake": "Macbeth"	1 answer
A way to cook eggs	1 answer
Abridge (with "down").	1 answer
Be angry as heck	1 answer
Be apoplectic	1 answer
Be extremely angry	1 answer
Be fervid	1 answer
Be filled with rage.	1 answer
Be greatly agitated.	1 answer
Be hot, hot, hot	1 answer
Be plenty hot	1 answer
Be super-angry	1 answer
Be very upset	1 answer
Become very wrathy.	1 answer
Bring to 212 degrees	1 answer
Bring to 212 degrees F	1 answer
Bring to 212 degrees Fahrenheit	1 answer
Bring to a bubble	1 answer
Bring to bubbling	1 answer
Bring water to 212 degrees	1 answer
Bubble rapidly	1 answer
Bubble rapidly, like water	1 answer
Bubble, as water	1 answer
Bubble, in a way	1 answer
Bubble, perhaps	1 answer
Canning instruction	1 answer
Come to a __ (start bubbling)	1 answer
Cook l'anglaise	1 answer
Bubble up on the stove	1 answer
Cook cabbage	1 answer
Cook campanelle	1 answer
Cook eggs, perhaps	1 answer
Cook in a cauldron	1 answer
Cook shrimp	1 answer
Cook, as an unshelled egg	1 answer
Cook, as cavatelli	1 answer
Cook, as eggs	1 answer
Cook, as in a cauldron	1 answer
Cook, as lobsters	1 answer
Cook, as pasta	1 answer
Cooking instruction, sometimes	1 answer
Directive in a pasta recipe	1 answer
Disinfect, possibly	1 answer
Distill, in a way	1 answer
Do eggs	1 answer
Do some poaching	1 answer
Down or over	1 answer
Exceed 212°F	1 answer
Get all het up	1 answer

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Hint 1 meaning

One who, or that which, eats.

Hint 2 anagram

TERAE

Hint 3 another clue

greedy person

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Sentences with BOIL (5)

The thin red clouds which hung above their pointed tops began to boil and move rapidly, weaving in and out like smoke.

The Song of the Lark Willa Cather 1992

Smugglers and legitimate traders between the French and English coasts brought snatches of news from over the water, which made every honest Englishman’s blood boil, and made him long to have “a good go” at those murderers, who had imprisoned their king and all his family, subjected the queen and the royal children to every species of indignity, and were even now loudly demanding the blood of the whole Bourbon family and of every one of its adherents.

The Scarlet Pimpernel Baroness Orczy 1993

Again I heard from her own lips things that made my blood boil, and again I cursed this brute who mishandled the woman I loved.

The Return of Sherlock Holmes Arthur Conan Doyle 1994

True, I replied, I had forgotten; of course they must have a relish-salt, and olives, and cheese, and they will boil roots and herbs such as country people prepare; for a dessert we shall give them figs, and peas, and beans; and they will roast myrtle-berries and acorns at the fire, drinking in moderation.

Plato's Republic Plato 2008

But, however, I found afterwards from Patty, that William said it was all the apples of _that_ sort his master had; he had brought them all—and now his master had not one left to bake or boil.

Emma Jane Austen 1994

Quotes with BOIL (3)

Material wealth can be bad for your health. Because when you’re in the soil it’ll make your blood boil, that you couldn’t keep it all for your self.

Benny Bellamacina

You should be spreading the good word. You should be etching the good word onto the glass scanning beds of library photocopiers. You should be scraping the truth onto old auto parts and throwing them off bridges so that people digging in the mud in a million years will question the world, too. You should be carving eyeballs into tire treads and onto shoe soles so that your every trail speaks of thinking and faith and belief. You should be designing molecules that crystallize …

Douglas Coupland Player One: What Is to Become of Us

Basically all the religions, sciences and powers of the world boil down to a simple truth. The Best Story Teller will win in the end!

Stanley Victor Paskavich

Where this answer appears

Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Rock & Roll, S&S, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 298 times in crossword archives (1951–2025).