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grilled

/ɡɹɪld/

grilled is the simple past and past participle of grill.

Adjective (1)

grilled (comparative more grilled, superlative most grilled)

  1. Cooked on a grill.
  2. As if cooked on a grill.
    • After a day in the sun, he was more grilled than his hamburger.

Meaning of grill

Verb

grill (third-person singular simple present grills, present participle grilling, simple past and past participle grilled)

  1. (transitive) To cook (food) on a grill; to barbecue.
    • Why don't we get together Saturday and grill some burgers?
    Synonyms:
    cook, do
  2. (Australia, New Zealand, UK, transitive) To cook food under the element of a stove or only under the top element of an oven – (US) broil, (cooking) salamander.
    • Bradly hung the fowl in a sugar-bag for to-morrow's dinner and set about grilling chops, with tomatoes stuffed with cheese and breadcrumbs in the pan.1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 139
  3. (colloquial, transitive) To interrogate; to question aggressively or harshly.
    • The police grilled him about his movements at the time of the crime.
  4. (informal, intransitive) To feel very hot; to swelter.
    • He had grilled in the heat, sweated in the rains, and shivered with fever under the rude thatch roof; […]1898, Rudyard Kipling, The Day's Work
  5. (transitive) To stamp or mark with a grill.
  6. (New-York-City) To stare at.

See all 21 meanings of grill

Adjective (2)

grilled (not comparable)

  1. Fitted with a grille.
    • High up, at second-storey level, are small openings cut into the wall and filled with shuttered, grilled windows […]1983, René A Bravmann, African Islam

Forms of grilled

comparativemore grilled
superlativemost grilled

Origin of grilled

From grill + -ed.

From grille + -ed.

Words formed from grilled

Phrases with grilled

Words that rhyme with grilled

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Questions about grilled

What does grilled mean?
Grilled means cooked on a grill.
What is grilled the simple past and past participle of?
Grilled is the simple past and past participle of grill.
What part of speech is grilled?
Grilled is an adjective.
How do you pronounce grilled?
Grilled is pronounced /ɡɹɪld/.

Words near grilled in the dictionary

  1. grillbillies
  2. grillbilly
  3. grille
  4. grille guard
  5. grille guards
  6. grilled
  7. grilled cheese
  8. grilled cheeses
  9. grilled up
  10. griller
  11. grilleries

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