boil

1. 1.

   a painful sore with a hard core filled with pus

   Synonymsfuruncle

   Broaderstaphylococcal infection

   Narrowergumboil
2. 2.

   the temperature at which a liquid boils at sea level

   “they brought the water to a boil”

   Synonymsboiling point

   Broadertemperature

Other forms of boil

plural

boils·

past tense

boiled·

present participle

boiling·

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.

Questions about boil

What does boil mean?

boil means "come to the boiling point and change from a liquid to vapor". That is the primary sense; the word has 7 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in boil?

boil has 1 syllable: boil. In IPA it is /ˈbɔɪl/.

What is another word for boil?

Close synonyms include churn, moil, roil, seethe, furuncle. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of boil?

The recorded antonyms are freeze.

Is boil a common word?

boil is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with boil?

2 words rhyme with boil. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.