Word Type

Noun

Adjective

Verb

Adverb

Adverb

The word "boiling" can be used as noun, adjective, verb, adverb and adverb.

Word Relationships

Coordinate Terms

baking broiling evaporating frying sautéing steaming sublimating superheating

Derived Terms

boiling frog boiling hot boiling mad boiling-house boilingly global boiling nonboiling whole boiling

Derived From

boil boiler

Inflected/Variant Forms

boil

Context

hyperbole

Broader Terms (Hypernyms)

cookery cooking evaporation heating preparation vapor vaporisation vaporization vapour warming

Type Of (IsA)

cooking heated heating vaporization

Related Terms

active animation boiling point change extremely gas heat liquid outline state substance uncomfortably wavy

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