Boiled vs Broil - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between boiled and broil

is that boiled is (boil) while broil is to cook by direct, radiant heat or broil can be to cause a rowdy disturbance; embroil.

As an adjective boiled

is cooked in boiling water.

As a noun broil is

food prepared by broiling or broil can be (archaic) a brawl; a rowdy disturbance.

boiled

English

Verb

(head)

(boil)

Adjective

(en adjective)

Cooked in boiling water.

(of water) having reached the boiling point

(colloquial) angry

(colloquial) drunk

Derived terms

* boiled egg * hard boiled * soft boiled

Anagrams

* *

broil

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) broillen, . (etyl) .

Verb

(en verb)

To cook by direct, radiant heat.

To expose to great heat.

To be exposed to great heat.

Noun

(en noun)

Food prepared by broiling.

Etymology 2

From (etyl) .

Verb

(en verb)

to cause a rowdy disturbance; embroil

(obsolete) to brawl

Noun

(en noun)

(archaic) A brawl; a rowdy disturbance.

* 1819 , , Otho the Great , Act I, verses 1-2

So, I am safe emerged from these broils ! / Amid the wreck of thousands I am whole

* Burke

I will own that there is a haughtiness and fierceness in human nature which will which will cause innumerable broils , place men in what situation you please.

* 1840 , Robert Chambers, ?William Chambers, Chambers's Edinburgh Journal (volume 8, page 382)

Since the provinces declared their independence, broils and squabblings of one sort and another have greatly retarded the advancement which they might otherwise have made.