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say it: boyl
boil is a verb and noun meaning "come to the boiling point and change from a liquid to vapor". It is pronounced /ˈbɔɪl/ — boyl. It carries 7 recorded senses.
come to the boiling point and change from a liquid to vapor
“Water boils at 100 degrees Celsius”
immerse or be immersed in a boiling liquid, often for cooking purposes
“boil potatoes”
“boil wool”
be in an agitated emotional state
“The customer was seething with anger”
a painful sore with a hard core filled with pus
the temperature at which a liquid boils at sea level
“they brought the water to a boil”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for boil come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.