Overboil

verb

verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To boil excessively. ambitransitive

    "If you overboil an egg, you'll end up with a hardboiled egg instead of the softboiled egg that you wanted; and if you underboil an egg, you'll end up with a softboiled egg instead of the hardboiled egg that you wanted."

  2. 2
    boil excessively wordnet
  3. 3
    overflow or cause to overflow while boiling wordnet

Synonyms

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boil overboil over

Example

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"If you overboil an egg, you'll end up with a hardboiled egg instead of the softboiled egg that you wanted; and if you underboil an egg, you'll end up with a softboiled egg instead of the hardboiled egg that you wanted."

Etymology

From over- + boil.

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