Parboil

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • v. To cook partially by boiling for a brief period: parboiled and then sautéed the new potatoes.
  • v. To subject to intense, often uncomfortable heat.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. To boil food briefly so that it is partly cooked.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • v. To boil or cook thoroughly.
  • v. To boil in part; to cook partially by boiling.
  • v. To do (something) only part way, or incompletely. Also used intransitively.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To boil thoroughly.
  • To boil slightly or in a moderate degree; half-boil.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. cook (vegetables) briefly
  • Verb Form
    parboiled    parboiling    parboils   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    cook   
    Form
    parboiled    parboiling   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    cook    boil    coddle   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
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