underboil

English

Etymology

From under- +‎ boil.

Pronunciation

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Verb

underboil (third-person singular simple present underboils, present participle underboiling, simple past and past participle underboiled)

  1. To boil insufficiently.
    Antonym: overboil
    Hypernym: boil
    If you underboil an egg, you'll end up with a softboiled egg instead of the hardboiled egg that you wanted; and if you overboil an egg, you'll end up with a hardboiled egg instead of the softboiled egg that you wanted.

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