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imboil

imboil is the obsolete form 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

Forms of imboil

third-person singular presentimboils
present participleimboiling
past participleimboiled
pastimboiled

Questions about imboil

What is imboil the obsolete form of?
Imboil is the obsolete form of emboil.

Words near imboil in the dictionary

  1. Imbodens
  2. imbodied
  3. imbodies
  4. imbody
  5. imbodying
  6. imboil
  7. imboiled
  8. imboiling
  9. imboils
  10. Imbolc
  11. imbolden

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