overboil

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Scrabble points
13
Words With Friends
16
Letters
8

Definition of overboil

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

verb

  1. (ambitransitive)To boil excessively.
    “If you overboil an egg, you'll end up with a hardboiled egg instead of the softboiled egg that you wanted; and if you underboil an egg, you'll end up with a softboiled egg instead of the hardboiled egg that you wanted.”

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Etymology

From over- + boil.

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