boiled

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boiled

  1. simple past and past participle of boil

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boiled (comparative more boiled, superlative most boiled)

  1. Cooked in boiling water.
  2. (of water) Having reached the boiling point.
  3. (colloquial) Angry.
  4. (colloquial) Drunk.
    • 1965, Herman Wouk, Don't Stop the Carnival, page 56:
      I got a closing at four o'clock in the Chrysler building and I'm boiled as an owl.

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