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hard boil

hard boil is the alternative form of hard-boil.

Meaning of hard-boil

Verb

hard-boil (third-person singular simple present hard-boils, present participle hard-boiling, simple past and past participle hard-boiled)

  1. (transitive) To cook (an egg) to a solid consistency: to cause to be hard-boiled.

Forms of hard boil

third-person singular presenthard boils
present participlehard boiling
past participlehard boiled
pasthard boiled

Questions about hard boil

What is hard boil the alternative form of?
Hard boil is the alternative form of hard-boil.

Words near hard boil in the dictionary

  1. hard at it
  2. hard at work
  3. hard atheism
  4. hard atheist
  5. hard atheists
  6. hard boil
  7. hard bop
  8. hard bread
  9. hard breads
  10. hard Brexit
  11. hard by

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hard boil (page history and authors); hard-boil (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.

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