BOILED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does boiled mean? 

• BOILED (adjective)
  The adjective BOILED has 1 sense:

1. cooked in hot water

  Familiarity information: BOILED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BOILED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Cooked in hot water

Synonyms:

boiled; poached; stewed

Similar:

cooked (having been prepared for eating by the application of heat)

 Context examples 

“That is the same drug that I was always bringing him,” said Poole; and even as he spoke, the kettle with a startling noise boiled over.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

I should certainly have boiled over if I hadn't stayed among the nettles till I got my rage under control enough to hold my tongue.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

The study shows that if the fish is boiled, the reduction is smaller, 18%, with the corresponding increase in risk for the consumer.

(Steaming Fish More Healthy than Boiling, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

I boiled the water, but it was Maud who made the coffee. And how good it was!

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

"Am I a man that I should be made a mock by every child that cries for meat?" The anger boiled a white heat.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

By and by, when we had dined in a sumptuous manner off boiled dabs, melted butter, and potatoes, with a chop for me, a hairy man with a very good-natured face came home.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

An egg boiled very soft is not unwholesome.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Nigel, cried Sir Oliver, waving a great boiled ham over his head, I have come by something which I may eat with my truffles!

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It boiled and heaved with strange life.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The old woman was as good as her word: she never spoke angrily to her, and gave her roast and boiled meats every day.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)