Broiled vs Boiled - What's the difference?
broiled | boiled |
(broil)
To cook by direct, radiant heat.
To expose to great heat.
To be exposed to great heat.
(archaic) A brawl; a rowdy disturbance.
* 1819 , , Otho the Great , Act I, verses 1-2
* Burke
* 1840 , Robert Chambers, ?William Chambers, Chambers's Edinburgh Journal (volume 8, page 382)
(boil)
Cooked in boiling water.
(of water) having reached the boiling point
(colloquial) angry
(colloquial) drunk
As verbs the difference between broiled and boiled
is that broiled is past tense of broil while boiled is past tense of boil.As an adjective boiled is
cooked in boiling water.broiled
English
Verb
(head)broil
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) broillen, . (etyl) .Verb
(en verb)Etymology 2
From (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- So, I am safe emerged from these broils ! / Amid the wreck of thousands I am whole
- 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.
- 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.