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Grilled vs Broiled - What's the difference?

grilled | broiled |

As verbs the difference between grilled and broiled

is that grilled is past tense of grill while broiled is past tense of broil.

As an adjective grilled

is cooked on a grill.

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 , RenĂ© A Bravmann, African Islam?
  • High up, at second-storey level, are small openings cut into the wall and filled with shuttered, grilled windows...

    broiled

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (broil)

  • 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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