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emboiled

emboiled is the simple past and past participle of emboil.

Meaning of emboil

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

Questions about emboiled

What is emboiled the simple past and past participle of?
Emboiled is the simple past and past participle of emboil.

Words near emboiled in the dictionary

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

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