BROILED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does broiled mean? 

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

1. cooked by radiant heat (as over a grill)

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• BROILED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Cooked by radiant heat (as over a grill)

Synonyms:

broiled; grilled

Similar:

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

 Context examples 

He was so polite as to stop at a public-house, expressly on our account, and entertain us with broiled mutton and beer.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

“Might it not be broiled, most learned sir?” asked the tooth-drawer.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Among participants who reported eating at least two servings of red meat, chicken or fish a week, the analysis revealed that the risk of developing high blood pressure was: 17 percent higher in those who grilled, broiled, or roasted beef, chicken or and fish more than 15 times/month, compared with less than 4 times a month. 15 percent higher in those who prefer their food well done, compared with those who prefer rarer meats. 17 percent higher in those estimated to have consumed the highest levels of heterocyclic aromatic amines (HAAs) — chemicals formed when meat protein is charred or exposed to high temperatures — compared to those with the lowest intake.

(High Temp Grilled Meat May Raise Blood Pressure, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Benz(a)anthracene is primarily found in gasoline and diesel exhaust, tobacco and cigarette smoke, coal tar and coal tar pitch, coal combustion emissions, charcoal-broiled foods, amino acids, fatty acids and carbohydrate pyrolysis products, wood and soot smoke, and creosote, asphalt and mineral oils.

(Benz[a]anthracene, NCI Thesaurus)