grilling

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.

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