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What does boil mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word boil? Here's what it means.

Noun
  1. A localized accumulation of pus in the skin, resulting from infection.
Noun
  1. The point at which fluid begins to change to a vapour.
  2. A dish of boiled food, especially based on seafood.
  3. (rare, nonstandard) The collective noun for a group of hawks.
Verb
  1. (transitive) To heat (a liquid) to the point where it begins to turn into a gas.
  2. (transitive, intransitive) To cook in boiling water.
  3. (intransitive) Of a liquid, to begin to turn into a gas, seethe.
  4. (progressive) Said of weather being uncomfortably hot.
  5. (progressive) To feel uncomfortably hot. See also seethe.
  6. To form, or separate, by boiling or evaporation.
  7. (obsolete) To steep or soak in warm water.
  8. To be agitated like boiling water; to bubble; to effervesce.
  9. To be moved or excited with passion; to be hot or fervid.
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