broil

1. 1.

   cooking by direct exposure to radiant heat (as over a fire or under a grill)

   Synonymsbroilinggrilling

   Broadercooking

Other forms of broil

plural

broils·

past tense

broiled·

present participle

broiling·

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 broil

What does broil mean?

broil means "cook under a broiler". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in broil?

broil has 1 syllable: broil. In IPA it is /ˈbɹɔɪl/.

What is another word for broil?

Close synonyms include oven broil, bake, bake, broiling, grilling. 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 broil a common word?

broil 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.

What rhymes with broil?

1 word rhymes with broil. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.