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underboil

underboil verb: to boil insufficiently.

Verb

underboil (third-person singular simple present underboils, present participle underboiling, simple past and past participle underboiled)

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

underboil meaning in Bengali

underboil in Bengali

অপর্যাপ্তভাবে সিদ্ধ করা

Antonyms of underboil

Forms of underboil

third-person singular presentunderboils
present participleunderboiling
past participleunderboiled
pastunderboiled

Origin of underboil

From under- + boil.

Questions about underboil

What does underboil mean?
Underboil means to boil insufficiently.
What is underboil in Bengali?
Underboil in Bengali is অপর্যাপ্তভাবে সিদ্ধ করা. See Underboil meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is underboil?
Underboil is a verb.
What is the past tense of underboil?
The past tense of underboil is underboiled.

Words near underboil in the dictionary

  1. underboated
  2. underbodice
  3. underbodices
  4. underbodies
  5. underbody
  6. underboil
  7. underboiled
  8. underboiling
  9. underboils
  10. underbone
  11. underbones

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Adapted from Wiktionary: underboil (page history and authors); underboil (Bengali Wiktionary) (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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