boiled

• IPA^(key): /bɔɪld/

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• Rhymes: -ɔɪld

boiled

1. simple past and past participle of boil

boiled (comparative more boiled, superlative most boiled)

1. Cooked in boiling water.
2. (of water) Having reached the boiling point.
3. (colloquial) Angry.
4. (colloquial) Drunk.
   • 1965, Herman Wouk, Don't Stop the Carnival, page 56:

     I got a closing at four o'clock in the Chrysler building and I'm boiled as an owl.

5. very hot

• bolide, odible, oldbie