Need another word that means the same as “boil”? Find 26 synonyms and 30 related words for “boil” in this overview.
The synonyms of “Boil” are: churn, moil, roil, seethe, simmer, bubble, heat, cook, stew, bring to the boil, be turbulent, be agitated, froth, foam, fizz, effervesce, be angry, be furious, be indignant, rage, fume, smoulder, furuncle, boiling point, 100 degrees celsius, 100 degrees centigrade
According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “boil” as a noun can have the following definitions:
100 degrees celsius | A position on a scale of intensity or amount or quality. |
100 degrees centigrade | The seriousness of something (e.g., a burn or crime. |
boiling point | The application of heat to change something from a liquid to a gas. |
furuncle | A painful sore with a hard core filled with pus. |
According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “boil” as a verb can have the following definitions:
be agitated | Be identical or equivalent to. |
be angry | Form or compose. |
be furious | Have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun. |
be indignant | Work in a specific place, with a specific subject, or in a specific function. |
be turbulent | Represent, as of a character on stage. |
bring to the boil | Cause to happen or to occur as a consequence. |
bubble | Of a liquid form rising bubbles of gas or air. Close by a stream bubbled along through reeds and rushes. |
churn | Produce butter by churning milk or cream. The seas churned. |
cook | Tamper, with the purpose of deception. While the rice is cooking add the saffron to the stock. |
effervesce | (of a liquid) give off bubbles. The waves seemed to effervesce as they swept by. |
fizz | Become bubbly or frothy or foaming. Anticipation began to fizz through his veins. |
foam | Become bubbly or frothy or foaming. The river was foaming. |
froth | Become bubbly or frothy or foaming. The cinema lobby frothed with indignation. |
fume | Treat with fumes expose to fumes especially with the aim of disinfecting or eradicating pests. We simply cannot have this she fumed. |
heat | Gain heat or get hot. The sun heats the oceans. |
moil | Be agitated. Men who moiled for gold. |
rage | Be violent; as of fires and storms. That s unfair Maggie raged. |
roil | Make (someone) annoyed or irritated. The sea roiled below her. |
seethe | Be noisy with activity. We cascaded down the stairs and seethed across the station. |
simmer | Exist in a suppressed state. Simmer the sauce. |
smoulder | Show or feel barely suppressed anger, hatred, or another powerful emotion. Anna smouldered with indignation. |
stew | (of tea) become strong and bitter with prolonged brewing. Beef stewed in wine. |
bacon | English statesman and philosopher; precursor of British empiricism; advocated inductive reasoning (1561-1626. A bacon sandwich. |
bake | A social gathering at which baked food of a specified kind is eaten. They bake their own bread and cakes. |
baked | Cooked by dry heat (as in an oven. Sunbaked salt flats. |
broil | Cook under a broiler. The countryside lay broiling in the sun. |
broth | Liquid in which meat and vegetables are simmered; used as a basis for e.g. soups or sauces. The pig made five pots of broth. |
cake | Baked goods made from or based on a mixture of flour, sugar, eggs, and fat. A cake of soap. |
churn | Produce butter by churning milk or cream. The seas churned. |
cooking | Suitable for or used in cooking. Cooking chocolate. |
crisp | A wafer thin slice of potato fried or baked until crisp and eaten as a snack. Her answer was crisp. |
curry | A pungent dish of vegetables or meats flavored with curry powder and usually eaten with rice. I ve been eating a lot of curry. |
fried | Exhausted or worn out. A breakfast of fried eggs and bacon. |
fritter | Spend frivolously and unwisely. I wish we hadn t frittered the money away so easily. |
fry | Execute or be executed by electrocution. Drugs fry the brain. |
grill | Cook food using a grill. A grill pan. |
kettle | The quantity a kettle will hold. Activists in the kettle were protesting at being held and resisting arrest. |
mutton | Meat from a mature domestic sheep. A leg of mutton. |
oven | An enclosed compartment, usually part of a cooker, for cooking and heating food. The sun was beating down on to my little tent and it was like an oven in there. |
pan | Wash gravel in a pan to separate out gold. Prospectors panned for gold in the Yukon. |
pie | A prehistoric unrecorded language that was the ancestor of all Indo-European languages. A good meal of hot pie and peas. |
recipe | Directions for making something. A traditional Yorkshire recipe. |
roast | An outdoor party at which meat of a particular type is roasted. This is the roast most likely to be used in espresso. |
sauce | Provide a sauce for something season with a sauce. A boy had sauced a monitor who wanted his shoes shined. |
scald | Any of a number of plant diseases which produce an effect similar to that of scalding especially a disease of fruit marked by browning and caused by excessive sunlight bad storage conditions or atmospheric pollution. Scald the milk. |
seethe | (of a person) be filled with intense but unexpressed anger. The grey ocean seethed. |
simmer | Exist in a suppressed state. She gave him time to simmer down after their argument. |
soup | A substance or mixture regarded as resembling soup in appearance or consistency. A bowl of tomato soup. |
spatter | The noise of something spattering or sputtering explosively. The baby spattered the bib with food. |
stew | Food prepared by stewing especially meat or fish with vegetables. Sweaty clothes left to stew in a plastic bag. |
vaporize | Turn into gas. All my stock assets have vaporized. |
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