parboil

From Middle English parboyle, from Old French parbouillir (“to boil thoroughly”), from Medieval Latin perbulliō, from Latin per (“thoroughly”) + bulliō (“I boil”). Sense “to boil partially” (c.1440), rather than original “to boil thoroughly” is by corruption: associating the prefix with part (from Latin pars (“part”)) rather than per.^[1]

parboil (third-person singular simple present parboils, present participle parboiling, simple past and past participle parboiled)

1. To boil food briefly so that it is partly cooked.

• parbake
• parcook
• parfry

• blanch

• bipolar