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overboil

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8 lettersPart of speech verbSorted beiloorvStarts with OEnds with L0 clues
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Definitions

  1. boil excessively

Word origin

From over- + boil.

Used in a sentence

  • 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.

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