broil

verb

/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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[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
[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。

Word Originlate Middle English (also in the sense ‘burn, char’): from Old French bruler ‘to burn’, of unknown origin.