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boil up

boil up noun: a traditionally Māori soup/stew made with potatoes, pork and other ingredients.

Noun

boil up (plural boil ups)

  1. (New Zealand) A traditionally Māori soup/stew made with potatoes, pork and other ingredients.

Verb

boil up (third-person singular simple present boils up, present participle boiling up, simple past and past participle boiled up)

  1. (transitive) To cook or prepare by boiling.
    • Can you boil up the vegetables while I baste the meat?
  2. (idiomatic, intransitive) To become more excited, intense or exciting.
  3. (US, dated, slang, transitive) To boil clothes to clean or sanitize them.

boil up meaning in Hindi

boil up in Hindi

to boil up, boil over
उफनना uphannā

Forms of boil up

Noun
pluralboil ups
Verb
third-person singular presentboils up
present participleboiling up
past participleboiled up
pastboiled up

Questions about boil up

What does boil up mean?
Boil up means a traditionally Māori soup/stew made with potatoes, pork and other ingredients.
What is boil up in Hindi?
Boil up in Hindi is उफनना (uphannā). See Boil up meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is boil up?
Boil up can be a noun or a verb.
What is the plural of boil up?
The plural of boil up is boil ups.

Words near boil up in the dictionary

  1. boil order
  2. boil orders
  3. boil over
  4. boil someone's piss
  5. boil the ocean
  6. boil up
  7. boil ups
  8. boil wash
  9. boil washes
  10. boil-in-bag
  11. boil-in-bags

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Adapted from Wiktionary: boil up (page history and authors); उफनना (Hindi) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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