grill

1. 1.

   cook over or under a grill

   “grill the sausages”

   Broadercook

   Narrowerbarbequehibachibroil

   cooking

2. 2.

   examine thoroughly

   “the student was grilled for two hours on the subject of phonology”

   Broaderexamine

Other forms of grill

plural

grills·

past tense

grilled·

present participle

grilling·

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 grill

What does grill mean?

grill means "a restaurant where food is cooked on a grill". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in grill?

grill has 1 syllable: grill. In IPA it is /ˈɡɹɪl/.

What is another word for grill?

Close synonyms include grillroom, grille, grillwork. 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 grill a common word?

grill 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 grill?

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