Underboil

verb

verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To boil insufficiently.

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

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

Etymology

From under- + boil.

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