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a painful sore with a hard pus-filled core cook in boiling liquid; "boil potatoes" bring to, or maintain at, the boiling point; "boil this liquid until it evaporates" come to the boiling point and change from a liquid to vapor; "Water boils at 100 degrees Celsius" the temperature at which a liquid boils at sea level; "the brought to water to a boil" be in an agitated emotional state; "The customer was seething with anger" be agitated; "the sea was churning in the storm" |
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