Clues for the word "BOIL"

We've had 153 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 309 times in crosswords. It was last seen in LA Times crossword on September 30, 2025.

Definition of boil

v. - To be agitated, or tumultuously moved, as a liquid by the generation and rising of bubbles of steam (or vapor), or of currents produced by heating it to the boiling point; to be in a state of ebullition; as, the water boils.
v. - To be agitated like boiling water, by any other cause than heat; to bubble; to effervesce; as, the boiling waves.
v. - To pass from a liquid to an aeriform state or vapor when heated; as, the water boils away.
v. - To be moved or excited with passion; to be hot or fervid; as, his blood boils with anger.
v. - To be in boiling water, as in cooking; as, the potatoes are boiling.
v. t. - To heat to the boiling point, or so as to cause ebullition; as, to boil water.
v. t. - To form, or separate, by boiling or evaporation; as, to boil sugar or salt.
v. t. - To subject to the action of heat in a boiling liquid so as to produce some specific effect, as cooking, cleansing, etc.; as, to boil meat; to boil clothes.
v. t. - To steep or soak in warm water.
n. - Act or state of boiling.
n. - A hard, painful, inflamed tumor, which, on suppuration, discharges pus, mixed with blood, and discloses a small fibrous mass of dead tissue, called the core.