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Broiling   /brˈɔɪlɪŋ/   Listen
verb
Broil  v. t.  (past & past part. broiled; pres. part. broiling)  
1.
To cook by direct exposure to heat over a fire, esp. upon a gridiron over coals.
2.
To subject to great (commonly direct) heat.


Broil  v. i.  To be subjected to the action of heat, as meat over the fire; to be greatly heated, or to be made uncomfortable with heat. "The planets and comets had been broiling in the sun."


noun
Broiling  n.  The act of causing anything to broil.


adjective
Broiling  adj.  Excessively hot; as, a broiling sun.





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"Broiling" Quotes from Famous Books



... interest of the whole world was suddenly concentrated on it, had been but little known and still less thought of by the dwellers in more civilised lands. It is the Crimea, children, and the Crimea on a broiling, stifling August day. At the present time when we speak and think of that dreadful war and the sufferings it entailed, it is above all the winters there that we recall with the greatest horror—those terrible 'Crimean winters.' ...
— Grandmother Dear - A Book for Boys and Girls • Mrs. Molesworth
... an August day's walk in Paris, than he will come across during a month in London. To begin with, we English treat Paris as though it were a back garden, in which a person may lounge in his old clothes, or indulge his fancy for the ugly and slovenly. Why, on broiling days, men and women should sally forth from their hotel with a travelling-bag and an opera-glass slung about their shoulders, passes my comprehension. Conceive the condition of mind of that man who imagines that he is an impressive presence when he is patrolling the Rue de la Paix ...
— The Cockaynes in Paris - 'Gone abroad' • Blanchard Jerrold
... of the vortex for a turn of rest. With helmets battered by shrapnel bullets, after nights in the rain and broiling hot days, their faces grimy and unshaven, their clothes torn and spotted, they were still Australians who looked you in the eye with a sense of having proved their birthright as free men. Sometimes the old spirit incited by the situation got out of bonds. One night when ...
— My Second Year of the War • Frederick Palmer
... what," said Tom to himself, "it's much pleasanter sitting here in the shade, than broiling over celery trenches, and thinning wall fruit, with a baking sun at one's back, and a hot wall before one's eyes. But I'm a miserable slave. I must either work or see my family starve; a very hard lot it ...
— De La Salle Fifth Reader • Brothers of the Christian Schools
... with the exception of the retrievers, Mr. Hardy and the boys started for a walk along the river, leading with them a horse to bring back the game, as their former experience had taught them that carrying half a dozen ducks and geese under a broiling sun was no joke. They were longer this time than before in making a good bag; and after-experience taught them that early in the morning or late in the evening was the time to go down to the stream, for at these times flights of birds were constantly approaching, and they could always ...
— Out on the Pampas - The Young Settlers • G. A. Henty


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