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boiled

boiled

1.0
Cooked in hot water or other hot liquid
  • adjective
  • /bɔɪld/
translation icon : hervido
  • Or eat eggs in a boiled form or in a raw form.

Or eat eggs in a boiled form or in a raw form.

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Examples

  • But I hate the boiled cabbage and beet soup on New Year's Eve.

  • These might be eaten raw, boiled, pickled or fried.

  • My mom boiled a hard boiled egg for me.

  • On average, boiled potatoes do really well in that regard.

  • My last item that I bought is a huge container of boiled peanuts.

  • So I was only eating more or less boiled chicken and steamed broccoli.

  • As you saw, Andres just poured in some freshly boiled water here.

  • Effectively it's corned beef, boiled carrots, peas, potatoes.

  • I prefer my eggs boiled for breakfast rather than scrambled.

  • She served a delicious salad topped with boiled potatoes.

Synonyms

hard-boiled
vsboiled
7 1.8

An egg cooked in boiling water until the white and yolk are solid

refers to heating in hot liquid without requiring yolk to be solid
soft-boiled
vsboiled
3 2.0

An egg cooked so the white is firm and the yolk is runny

refers to heating in hot liquid without requiring a liquid yolk
cooked
vsboiled
1 1.0

Food that is heated until ready to eat

means heating specifically in hot water or liquid rather than any method

Antonyms

raw
353 1.0

In a natural state not cooked, treated, or finished

8 1.0

Food that is raw and not heated before eating

Compounds

15 1.0

An egg cooked in its shell in boiling water until the white and yolk are set

An egg boiled until the white and yolk are solid

4.7

A meal of corned beef cooked with cabbage, potatoes, carrots, and onions

A dish of corned beef boiled with cabbage, potatoes, and carrots

How Cooked

overdone
1 2.9
boiled
1.0
underdone
2 3.8
raw
353 1.0

Surface Forms

boiled positive

Morphology

boiled = boil (transparent) = boil + ed

The adjective is a regular past-participle/adjectival form of the verb 'boil' indicating 'cooked by boiling', which is directly derivable by learners who know the verb.

Etymology

The word boiled comes from old words that meant 'to bubble' when water gets very hot. So when food is boiled, it has been cooked in a liquid that was made to 'bubble', which makes it soft and ready to eat.