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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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