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emboiling

emboiling is the present participle and gerund 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 emboiling

What is emboiling the present participle and gerund of?
Emboiling is the present participle and gerund of emboil.

Words near emboiling in the dictionary

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

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