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broilbroil /brɔɪl/ verb [intransitive, transitive] ETYMOLOGYbroilOrigin: 1300-1400 Old French bruler to burn VERB TABLEbroil |
Present | I, you, we, they | broil | | he, she, it | broils | Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | broiled | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have broiled | | he, she, it | has broiled | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had broiled | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will broil | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have broiled |
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Present | I | am broiling | | he, she, it | is broiling | | you, we, they | are broiling | Past | I, he, she, it | was broiling | | you, we, they | were broiling | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been broiling | | he, she, it | has been broiling | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been broiling | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be broiling | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been broiling |
THESAURUS to prepare food for eating by using heat► cook to prepare food for eating by using heat: Mom taught me to cook. It’s important to cook the meat thoroughly. ► make to make food ready to eat, with or without using heat: Do you want to help me make cookies? ► prepare formal to make food ready to eat: She started to prepare the Thanksgiving meal early in the morning. ► bake to cook food such as bread or cake in the oven: I was planning to bake a cake for his birthday. ► toast to cook the outside surfaces of bread: Toast both sides of the bread before adding the topping. ► roast to cook meat or vegetables in an oven: Roast the beef for one and a half or two hours. ► fry to cook food in oil on the top part of an oven: Grandma taught me how to fry chicken. ► sauté to fry vegetables for a short time in a small amount of oil: Sauté the onions until they look clear. ► deep fry to fry food in a pan containing a lot of hot oil: The doughnuts are deep fried and delicious. ► broil to cook food by placing it near to strong heat from above: The burgers are broiled, not fried. ► grill to cook food over strong heat, especially over flames: They grilled the steaks on an iron grill. ► barbecue to cook food on a metal frame over a fire outdoors: We’re planning to barbecue chicken and vegetables at the picnic. ► steam to cook vegetables by placing them in a container over very hot water so that the steam from the hot water cooks them: Steam the broccoli until it turns bright green. ► boil to cook vegetables in very hot water on the top part of the oven: I put the potatoes in a pot to boil them. ► microwave to cook food in a microwave oven: You can microwave the leftovers for a couple of minutes to heat them up. 1if you broil something, or if it broils, you cook it under or over direct heat, or over a flame on a barbecue SYN grill: broiled chicken2to become very hot: We were broiling in the sun. [Origin: 1300–1400 Old French bruler to burn] |