To broil is to cook something with direct exposure to fire. Broiling is similar to grilling, but you can also oven broil your steak if it's raining out.
A tumult; a noisy quarrel; a disturbance; a brawl; contention; discord, either between individuals or in the state.
Noun
cooking by direct exposure to radiant heat (as over a fire or under a grill)
Verb
cook under a broiler; "broil fish"
Verb
heat by a natural force; "The sun broils the valley in the summer"
n.
A tumult; a noisy quarrel; a disturbance; a brawl;
contention; discord, either between individuals or in the state.
v. t.
To cook by direct exposure to heat over a fire, esp. upon
a gridiron over coals.
v. t.
To subject to great (commonly direct) heat.
v. i.
To be subjected to the action of heat, as meat over the
fire; to be greatly heated, or to be made uncomfortable with heat.
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I will own that there is a haughtiness and fierceness in human nature which will which will cause innumerable broils, place men in what situation you please.
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The planets and comets had been broiling in the sun.
A tumult; a noisy quarrel; a disturbance; a brawl; contention; discord, either between individuals or in the state.
To cook by direct exposure to heat over a fire, esp. upon a gridiron over coals.
To be subjected to the action of heat, as meat over the fire; to be greatly heated, or to be made uncomfortable with heat.
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