Word.ws English Dictionary

emboils

emboils is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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 emboils

What is emboils the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Emboils is the third-person singular simple present indicative of emboil.

Words near emboils in the dictionary

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

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: emboils (page history and authors); emboil (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “emboils.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/emboils. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.