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overboil

overboil verb: to boil excessively.

Verb

overboil (third-person singular simple present overboils, present participle overboiling, simple past and past participle overboiled)

  1. (ambitransitive) To boil excessively.
    • If you overboil an egg, you'll end up with a hardboiled egg instead of the softboiled egg that you wanted; and if you underboil an egg, you'll end up with a softboiled egg instead of the hardboiled egg that you wanted.
    Antonyms:
    underboil

Antonyms of overboil

Forms of overboil

third-person singular presentoverboils
present participleoverboiling
past participleoverboiled
pastoverboiled

Origin of overboil

From over- + boil.

Questions about overboil

What does overboil mean?
Overboil means to boil excessively.
What part of speech is overboil?
Overboil is a verb.
What is the past tense of overboil?
The past tense of overboil is overboiled.

Words near overboil in the dictionary

  1. overbodices
  2. overbodied
  3. overbodies
  4. overbody
  5. overbodying
  6. overboil
  7. overboiled
  8. overboiling
  9. overboils
  10. overboisterous
  11. overboisterously

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