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boil | blanch |

As a noun boil

is a localized accumulation of pus in the skin, resulting from infection or boil can be the point at which fluid begins to change to a vapour.

As a verb boil

is to heat (a liquid) to the point where it begins to turn into a gas.

As a proper noun blanch is

, a less common spelling of blanche.

boil

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) bile, .

Noun

(en noun)
  • A localized accumulation of pus in the skin, resulting from infection.
  • Synonyms
    * abscess * carbuncle * cyst * furuncle * pimple * pustule

    Etymology 2

    (etyl) "to well up, boil"). More at seethe, well.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The point at which fluid begins to change to a vapour.
  • Add the noodles when the water comes to the boil .
  • A dish of boiled food, especially based on seafood.
  • (rare, nonstandard) The collective noun for a group of hawks.
  • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To heat (a liquid) to the point where it begins to turn into a gas.
  • Boil some water in a pan.
  • (intransitive) To cook in boiling water.
  • Boil the eggs for two minutes.
    Is the rice boiling yet?
  • Of a liquid, to begin to turn into a gas, seethe.
  • Pure water boils at 100 degrees Celsius.
  • (intransitive, informal, used only in progressive tenses) Said of weather being uncomfortably hot.
  • It’s boiling outside!
  • (intransitive, informal, used only in progressive tenses) To feel uncomfortably hot. See also seethe.
  • I’m boiling in here – could you open the window?
  • To form, or separate, by boiling or evaporation.
  • to boil sugar or salt
  • (obsolete) To steep or soak in warm water.
  • * Francis Bacon
  • To try whether seeds be old or new, the sense cannot inform; but if you boil them in water, the new seeds will sprout sooner.
  • To be agitated like boiling water; to bubble; to effervesce.
  • the boiling waves of the sea
  • * Bible, Job xii. 31
  • He maketh the deep to boil like a pot.
  • To be moved or excited with passion; to be hot or fervid.
  • His blood boils with anger.
  • * Surrey
  • Then boiled my breast with flame and burning wrath.
    Synonyms
    * (of a liquid) seethe, well, plaw ; see also * (of the weather) be baking]], be scorching, [[swelter, be sweltering * (of a person) be seething]], be baking, [[stew, be stewing
    Antonyms
    * (of a liquid) condense * (of the weather) be freezing * (of a person) be freezing
    Derived terms
    * boil away * boil down * boil down to * boil off * boil over * go off the boil * hard-boiled * make someone's blood boil * parboil * pot boiler * slow boil * soft-boiled
    See also
    * bake * condense * freeze * fry * grill * poach * steam

    blanch

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) blanchir

    Verb

    (es)
  • To grow or become white
  • his cheek blanched with fear
    the rose blanches in the sun
  • To take the color out of, and make white; to bleach
  • to blanch linen
    age has blanched his hair
  • (cooking) To cook by dipping briefly into boiling water, then directly into cold water.
  • To whiten, as the surface of meat, by plunging into boiling water and afterwards into cold, so as to harden the surface and retain the juices
  • To bleach by excluding the light, as the stalks or leaves of plants, by earthing them up or tying them together
  • To make white by removing the skin of, as by scalding
  • to blanch almonds
  • To give a white luster to (silver, before stamping, in the process of coining)
  • To cover (sheet iron) with a coating of tin.
  • (figuratively) To whiten; to give a favorable appearance to; to whitewash; to palliate
  • * Tillotson
  • Blanch over the blackest and most absurd things.

    Etymology 2

    Variant of blench

    Verb

    (es)
  • To avoid, as from fear; to evade; to leave unnoticed.
  • * Francis Bacon
  • Ifs and ands to qualify the words of treason, whereby every man might express his malice and blanch his danger.
  • * Reliq. Wot
  • I suppose you will not blanch Paris in your way.
  • To cause to turn aside or back.
  • to blanch a deer
  • To use evasion.
  • * Francis Bacon
  • Books will speak plain, when counsellors blanch .
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