Definitions

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  • adjective cooked by direct exposure to radiant heat.

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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of broil.

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  • adjective cooked by radiant heat (as over a grill)

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Examples

  • I am quite happy to have fried fish and chips out, or to take it home ready made, but there's nothing I'd like better than a plain broiled skate wing with butter and capers.

    Toast: Lindy 2006

  • I am quite happy to have fried fish and chips out, or to take it home ready made, but there's nothing I'd like better than a plain broiled skate wing with butter and capers.

    Chermoula-A Fish Story Lindy 2006

  • The foreigner, who was supping on a Crail-capon (in other words a broiled haddock) and stoup of Bourdeaux wine, arose at their entrance, and bowed with, an air that was undisguisedly continental.

    The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852 Various

  • The deal was to be part-paid in Thai broiled chicken, but the meat is said to have never reached Austria; the vehicles were allegedly made in Thailand and not Austria as agreed, according to details of the case on the Thai parliamentary website.

    Channel NewsAsia Front Page News 2008

  • He recalled a broiled sea bass looking up at him with mournful eyes.

    The Impossibles Laurence M. Janifer 1967

  • He recalled a broiled sea bass looking up at him with mournful eyes.

    Out Like a Light Randall Garrett 1957

  • Menus hardly ever show "broiled" anything in the UK.

    languagehat.com: BROIL/GRILL. 2005

  • And from the reckless way they were tacklin 'big platters of expensive food, such as broiled live lobster and planked steaks, I judged they'd been mustered out more or less recent.

    Torchy and Vee Sewell Ford 1907

  • She likes to flip through cooking magazines and recipe books, looking at glossy pictures of cupcakes or strange Japanese dishes, such as broiled salamander on a stick.

    unknown title 2009

  • She likes to flip through cooking magazines and recipe books, looking at glossy pictures of cupcakes or strange Japanese dishes, such as broiled salamander on a stick.

    Spokesman.com: Latest stories 2009

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