Broil vs Grilled - What's the difference?
broil | grilled |
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)
(grill)
Cooked on a grill.
As if cooked on a grill.
Fitted with a grille.
* 1983 , René A Bravmann, African Islam?
As verbs the difference between broil and grilled
is that broil is to cook by direct, radiant heat or broil can be to cause a rowdy disturbance; embroil while grilled is (grill).As a noun broil
is food prepared by broiling or broil can be (archaic) a brawl; a rowdy disturbance.As an adjective grilled is
cooked on a grill or grilled can be fitted with a grille.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.
Anagrams
*grilled
English
Etymology 1
Verb
(head)- The meat was grilled as this was considered the healthier option.
- She grilled him over his whereabouts the previous night.
Adjective
(en adjective)- After a day in the sun, he looked more grilled than his hamburger.
Etymology 2
Adjective
(-)- High up, at second-storey level, are small openings cut into the wall and filled with shuttered, grilled windows...
