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51boil away — To evaporate (completely) by boiling • • • Main Entry: ↑boil * * * ˌboil a ˈway [intransitive/transitive] [present tense I/you/we/they boil away he/she/it boils away …
52boil over — {v. phr.} 1. To rise due to boiling and overflow down the sides of a pan or a pot. * / Watch out! Jane cried. The milk is boiling over on the stove! / 2. To become enraged to the point of being unable to contain oneself. * /John took a lot of… …
53boil over — {v. phr.} 1. To rise due to boiling and overflow down the sides of a pan or a pot. * / Watch out! Jane cried. The milk is boiling over on the stove! / 2. To become enraged to the point of being unable to contain oneself. * /John took a lot of… …
54Boil (disambiguation) — Boil can mean: *to bring to the boiling point, at which a substance goes from the liquid to the gaseous phase. *to cook in boiling water *a localized accumulation of pus in the skin, resulting from infection; see boil. *to convert printed data… …
55boil down something — boil down (something) to reduce something to its most basic or important parts. I am supposed to boil down this ten page report to half a page. The whole question boils down to how will we pay for this? …
56boil down — (something) to reduce something to its most basic or important parts. I am supposed to boil down this ten page report to half a page. The whole question boils down to how will we pay for this? …
57boil down — index abridge (shorten), distill, lessen Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …
58boil to the surface — If a problem or issue boils to the surface, it emerges at a particular time and needs to be discussed or resolved …
59boil|er|mak|er — «BOY luhr MAY kuhr», noun. 1. a person who makes boilers. 2. a drink of whiskey followed by beer as a chaser …
60boil|er|plate — «BOY luhr PLAYT», noun, or boiler plate, 1. steel rolled in the form of flat plates, from ¼ to ½ inch in thickness, used especially for making boilers, tanks, and ships; boiler iron. 2. U.S. a fullsize model of a spacecraft, used in ground and… …
