Broil vs Grilled - What's the difference?
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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.
Other Comparisons: What's the difference?
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.
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grilled English
Etymology 1
Verb
( head)
(grill)
- The meat was grilled as this was considered the healthier option.
- She grilled him over his whereabouts the previous night.
Adjective
( en adjective)
Cooked on a grill.
As if cooked on a grill.
- After a day in the sun, he looked more grilled than his hamburger.
Etymology 2
Adjective
( -)
Fitted with a grille.
* 1983 , René A Bravmann, African Islam?
- High up, at second-storey level, are small openings cut into the wall and filled with shuttered, grilled windows...
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