overboil

动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To boil excessively. ambitransitive
    — If you overboil an egg, you'll end up with a hardboiled egg instead of the softboiled egg that you wanted; and if you underboil an egg, you'll end up with a softboiled egg instead of the hardboiled egg that you wanted.

词形变化

overboils present,singular,third-person overboiling participle,present overboiled participle,past overboiled past

词源

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *úp
Proto-Indo-European *-er
Proto-Indo-European *upér
Proto-Germanic *uber
Old English ofer-
Middle English over-
English over-
Proto-Indo-European *bew-der.?
Proto-Indo-European *bʰel-der.?
Latin bulla
Proto-Indo-European *-yétider.
Latin -iō
Latin bulliō
Old French boillirbor.
Middle English boillen
English boil
English overboil
From over- + boil.
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