Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adverb & adjective At a boil; boiling.
- adverb & adjective In an excited or tumultuous state.
from The Century Dictionary.
- In or into a boiling state.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Put the quail's eggs in a saucepan, cover with cold water and bring to aboil.
Yotam Ottolenghi's watercress salad with quail's egg, ricotta and seeds recipe 2010
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Casting to and fro, he soon found what he expected, a concavity in the tumbled snow like material, slightly aboil.
The Clique 2010
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In a small pan, bring the water and salt to aboil and, stirring vigorously with awooden spoon, slowly pour in the polenta.
Yotam Ottolenghi's fried polenta and goat's cheese with gooseberry and chilli relish recipe 2010
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Only at mid-week, with Washington aboil, did he arrive in the capital for a counterinsurgency conference at the National Press Club and quietly "endorse" "General McChrystal's assessment."
Tom Engelhardt: How to Trap a President in a Losing War: Petraeus, McChrystal, and the Surgettes 2009
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Only at mid-week, with Washington aboil, did he arrive in the capital for a counterinsurgency conference at the National Press Club and quietly "endorse" "General McChrystal\'s assessment."'
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The risks are far from over in Iraq, especially given Iran's desire to keep ethnic strife aboil and prevent the emergence of a strong, democratically elected and Shiite-dominated government.
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Only at mid-week, with Washington aboil, did he arrive in the capital for a counterinsurgency conference at the National Press Club and quietly "endorse" "General McChrystal's assessment."
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The "homeland" is in turmoil, the planetary frontiers are aboil.
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With the Baltics aboil and the world disgusted over the bloody suppression of independence in Lithuania, Gorbachev agreed to negotiate a new union treaty with Boris Yeltsin and other republic leaders.
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The group of them got into a happy conversation, and like a pot set vigorously aboil, the waiting room was soon splattered by the frolicsome four: "radical secular left," "cultural relativism run amok," "post-modern world," "the mushy middle," etc.
Archive 2008-03-01 2008
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