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Meaning:
Noun:
- A dish of boiled food, especially based on seafood.
- A localized accumulation of pus in the skin, resulting from infection.
- The collective noun for a group of hawks.
- The point at which fluid begins to change to a vapour.
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Verb:
- informal|used only in progressive tenses Said of weather being uncomfortably hot.
- informal|used only in progressive tenses To feel uncomfortably hot. See also seethe.
- intransitive Of a liquid, to begin to turn into a gas, seethe.
- transitive To cook in boiling water.
- transitive To heat (a liquid) to the point where it begins to turn into a gas.
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