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underboils

underboils is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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 underboils

What is underboils the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Underboils is the third-person singular simple present indicative of underboil.

Words near underboils in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: underboils (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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