boil over

1. 1.

   overflow or cause to overflow while boiling

   “The milk is boiling over”

   Synonymsoverboil

   Broaderboil

Questions about boil over

What does boil over mean?

boil over means "overflow or cause to overflow while boiling".

What is another word for boil over?

Close synonyms include overboil. 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.

Is boil over a common word?

boil over is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.