broil








verb (used with object)

  1. to cook by direct heat, as on a gridiron over the heat or in an oven under the heat; grill: to broil a steak.
  2. to scorch; make very hot.

verb (used without object)

  1. to be subjected to great heat; become broiled.
  2. to burn with impatience, annoyance, etc.

noun

  1. the act or state of broiling; state of being broiled.
  2. something broiled, especially meat: She ordered a beef broil and salad.

noun

  1. an angry quarrel or struggle; disturbance; tumult: a violent broil over who was at fault.

verb (used without object)

  1. to quarrel; brawl.

verb

  1. mainly US and Canadian to cook (meat, fish, etc) by direct heat, as under a grill or over a hot fire, or (of meat, fish, etc) to be cooked in this wayUsual equivalent (in Britain and other countries): grill
  2. to become or cause to become extremely hot
  3. (intr) to be furious

noun

  1. the process of broiling
  2. something broiled

noun

  1. a loud quarrel or disturbance; brawl

verb

  1. (intr) to brawl; quarrel
v.1

“to cook,” late 14c. (earlier “to burn,” mid-14c.), from Old French bruller “to broil, roast” (Modern French brûler), earlier brusler “to burn” (11c.), which, with Italian bruciare, is of uncertain and much-disputed origin.

Perhaps from Vulgar Latin *brodum “broth,” borrowed from Germanic and ultimately related to brew (v.). Gamillscheg proposes it to be from Latin ustulare “to scorch, singe” (from ustus, past participle of urere “to burn”) and altered by influence of Germanic “burn” words beginning in br-. Related: Broiled; broiling.

v.2

early 15c., “to quarrel, brawl,” also “mix up, present in disorder,” from Anglo-French broiller “mix up, confuse,” Old French brooillier “to mix, mingle,” figuratively “to have sexual intercourse” (13c., Modern French brouiller), perhaps from breu, bro “stock, broth, brew,” from Frankish or another Germanic source (cf. Old High German brod “broth”) akin to broth (see brew (v.)); also compare imbroglio.

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