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underboiling

underboiling is the present participle and gerund of underboil.

Meaning of underboil

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

Questions about underboiling

What is underboiling the present participle and gerund of?
Underboiling is the present participle and gerund of underboil.

Words near underboiling in the dictionary

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

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