BROILING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does broiling mean? 

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

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

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• BROILING (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 ("broiling" is a kind of...):

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

 Context examples 

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

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

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)

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)

Such a dreadful broiling morning!

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

The next day was broiling, almost the last, certainly the warmest, of the summer.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)