BROIL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does broil mean? 

• BROIL (noun)
  The noun BROIL has 1 sense:

1. cooking by direct exposure to radiant heat (as over a fire or under a grill)

  Familiarity information: BROIL used as a noun is very rare.

• BROIL (verb)
  The verb BROIL has 3 senses:

1. cook under a broiler

2. heat by a natural force

3. be very hot, due to hot weather or exposure to the sun

  Familiarity information: BROIL used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BROIL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Cooking by direct exposure to radiant heat (as over a fire or under a grill)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

broil; broiling; grilling

Hypernyms ("broil" is a kind of...):

cookery; cooking; preparation (the act of preparing something (as food) by the application of heat)

Derivation:

broil (cook under a broiler)

• BROIL (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they broil    ... he / she / it broils   
Past simple: broiled   
Past participle: broiled   
-ing form: broiling   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Cook under a broiler

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

broil; oven broil

Context example:

broil fish

Hypernyms (to "broil" is one way to...):

grill (cook over or under a grill)

Domain category:

cookery; cooking; preparation (the act of preparing something (as food) by the application of heat)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "broil"):

pan-broil (broil in a pan)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s something

Sentence example:

The chefs broil the vegetables

Derivation:

broil (cooking by direct exposure to radiant heat (as over a fire or under a grill))

broiler (an oven or part of a stove used for broiling)

broiler (flesh of a small young chicken not over 2 1/2 lb suitable for broiling)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Heat by a natural force

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

bake; broil

Context example:

The sun broils the valley in the summer

Hypernyms (to "broil" is one way to...):

heat; heat up (make hot or hotter)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something

Sense 3

Meaning:

Be very hot, due to hot weather or exposure to the sun

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Synonyms:

bake; broil

Context example:

the tourists were baking in the heat

Hypernyms (to "broil" is one way to...):

be (have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun))

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s

 Context examples 

“Might it not be broiled, most learned sir?” asked the tooth-drawer.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

As a result, ultrahot Jupiters' daysides broil in a perpetual high noon.

(Water Is Destroyed, Then Reborn in Ultrahot Jupiters, NASA/JPL)

He was so polite as to stop at a public-house, expressly on our account, and entertain us with broiled mutton and beer.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Because of the high temperatures used, frying, broiling, and barbecuing produce the largest amounts of heterocyclic amines.

(Heterocyclic Amine Carcinogen, NCI Thesaurus)

A chemical that is formed when meat, poultry, or fish is cooked at high temperatures, such as frying, broiling, and barbecuing.

(HCA, NCI Dictionary)

Among participants who reported eating at least two servings of red meat, chicken or fish a week, the analysis revealed that the risk of developing high blood pressure was: 17 percent higher in those who grilled, broiled, or roasted beef, chicken or and fish more than 15 times/month, compared with less than 4 times a month. 15 percent higher in those who prefer their food well done, compared with those who prefer rarer meats. 17 percent higher in those estimated to have consumed the highest levels of heterocyclic aromatic amines (HAAs) — chemicals formed when meat protein is charred or exposed to high temperatures — compared to those with the lowest intake.

(High Temp Grilled Meat May Raise Blood Pressure, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Such a dreadful broiling morning!

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Benz(a)anthracene is primarily found in gasoline and diesel exhaust, tobacco and cigarette smoke, coal tar and coal tar pitch, coal combustion emissions, charcoal-broiled foods, amino acids, fatty acids and carbohydrate pyrolysis products, wood and soot smoke, and creosote, asphalt and mineral oils.

(Benz[a]anthracene, NCI Thesaurus)

Nay, Aylward, said Sir Nigel, we cannot mend the matter by broiling.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I fancied she was jealous even of the saucepan on it; and I have reason to know that she took its impressment into the service of boiling my egg and broiling my bacon, in dudgeon; for I saw her, with my own discomfited eyes, shake her fist at me once, when those culinary operations were going on, and no one else was looking.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)