| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| PRONUNCIATION: |  broil |
| VERB: | Inflected forms: broiled, broil·ing, broils
| | TRANSITIVE VERB: | 1. To cook by direct radiant heat, as over a grill or under an electric element. 2. To expose to great heat. | | INTRANSITIVE VERB: | To be exposed to great heat. | | NOUN: | 1. The act of broiling or the condition of being broiled. 2. Food, especially meat, that is broiled. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Middle English broilen, from Old French brusler, bruler, perhaps from usler, to burn (with br- from bruir, to burn), from Latin ustul re, to scorch, from ustus, past participle of  rere, to burn.
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