broil

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Pronunciation

• IPA: /bɹɔɪl/

Verb

broil (broils, present participle broiling; past and past participle broiled)

1. (transitive, North America) To cook by direct, radiant heat.

   Synonyms: grill

2. (transitive, North America) To expose to great heat.
3. (intransitive, North America) To be exposed to great heat.

Translations

• French: griller
• Russian: жа́рить

Translations

• Russian: жа́риться

Noun

broil (plural broils)

1. Food prepared by broiling.

Verb

broil (broils, present participle broiling; past and past participle broiled)

1. (transitive) To cause a rowdy disturbance; embroil.
2. (intransitive, obsolete) To brawl.

Noun

broil (plural broils)

1. (archaic) A brawl; a rowdy disturbance.

   come to broils

   • 1819, John Keats, Otho the Great, Act I, verses 1-2

     So, I am safe emerged from these broils! / Amid the wreck of thousands I am whole

   • 1820, Walter Scott, Ivanhoe, Chapter 27

     "Away with this prating dotard," said Front-de Boeuf, "lock him up in the chapel, to tell his beads till the broil be over. It will be a new thing to the saints in Torquilstone to hear aves and paters; they have not been so honoured, I trow, since they were cut out of stone."

   • 1840, Robert Chambers, ‎William Chambers, Chambers's Edinburgh Journal (volume 8, page 382)

     Since the provinces declared their independence, broils and squabblings of one sort and another have greatly retarded the advancement which they might otherwise have made.

   • I will own that there is a haughtiness and fierceness in human nature which will cause innumerable broils, place men in what situation you please.

Synonyms

• skirmish

Translations

• French: échauffourée

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