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broil

verb
🔊/brɔɪl/
🔊/brɔɪl/
Verb Forms
present simple I / you / we / they broil
🔊/brɔɪl/
🔊/brɔɪl/
he / she / it broils
🔊/brɔɪlz/
🔊/brɔɪlz/
past simple broiled
🔊/brɔɪld/
🔊/brɔɪld/
past participle broiled
🔊/brɔɪld/
🔊/brɔɪld/
-ing form broiling
🔊/ˈbrɔɪlɪŋ/
🔊/ˈbrɔɪlɪŋ/
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  1. [transitive] broil something (North American English) to cook meat or fish under direct heat or over heat on metal bars烤，焙（肉或鱼）
    • broiled chicken烤鸡
    compare barbecue, grillTopics Cooking and eatingc2
  2. [intransitive, transitive] broil (somebody) to become or make somebody become very hot（使）变得灼热，受炙热
    • They lay broiling in the sun.他们躺在太阳底下几乎要晒熟了。🔊🔊
    3. Word Originlate Middle English (also in the sense ‘burn, char’): from Old French bruler ‘to burn’, of unknown origin.