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emboil

emboil verb: to boil with anger; to effervesce.

Verb

emboil (third-person singular simple present emboils, present participle emboiling, simple past and past participle emboiled)

  1. (intransitive, obsolete) To boil with anger; to effervesce.
    • quench thy hot emboiling Wrath1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
  2. (obsolete, transitive) To cause to boil with anger; to irritate; to chafe.
    • Emboyled, grieued, brent.1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Forms of emboil

third-person singular presentemboils
present participleemboiling
past participleemboiled
pastemboiled

Origin of emboil

From em- + boil.

Questions about emboil

What does emboil mean?
Emboil means to boil with anger; to effervesce.
What part of speech is emboil?
Emboil is a verb.
What is the past tense of emboil?
The past tense of emboil is emboiled.

Words near emboil in the dictionary

  1. embogs
  2. embogue
  3. embogued
  4. embogues
  5. emboguing
  6. emboil
  7. emboiled
  8. emboiling
  9. emboils
  10. embol-
  11. embola

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