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Substantiivi

1. The point at which fluid begins to change to a vapour; the boiling point.
2. A localized accumulation of pus in the skin, resulting from infection.
3. An instance of boiling.
4. A dish of boiled food, especially seafood.
5. (US) A social event at which people gather to boil and eat food, especially seafood. (Compare a bake or clambake.)
6. (rare, nonstandard) The collective noun for a group of hawks.
7. (archaic) A bubbling.

Verbi

1. (transitive, of liquids) To heat to the point where it begins to turn into a gas.
2. (ambitransitive) To cook in boiling water.
3. (intransitive, of liquids) To begin to turn into a gas, seethe.
4. (transitive, UK, informal) To bring to a boil, to heat so as to cause the contents to boil.
5. (intransitive, informal, used only in progressive tenses, of weather) To be uncomfortably hot.
6. (intransitive, informal, used only in progressive tenses) To feel uncomfortably hot.
7. (transitive) To form, or separate, by boiling or evaporation.
8. (obsolete) To steep or soak in warm water.
9. (intransitive, of liquids) To be agitated like boiling water; to bubble; to effervesce.
10. To be moved or excited with passion; to be hot or fervid.