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broil

1  [broil]
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–verb (used with object)
1. to cook by direct heat, as on a gridiron over the heat or in an oven under the heat; grill: to broil a steak.
2. to scorch; make very hot.
–verb (used without object)
3. to be subjected to great heat; become broiled.
4. to burn with impatience, annoyance, etc.
–noun
5. the act or state of broiling; state of being broiled.
6. something broiled, esp. meat: She ordered a beef broil and salad.
Origin:
1300–50; ME brulen, brolyn, broillen < AF bruill(i)er, broil(l)er, OF brusler, brul(l)er to burn (F brûler), a conflation of the verbs represented by OF bruir to burn (< Frankish *brōjan; cf. MHG brü(ej)en, G brühen to scald) and usler < L ustulāre to scorch

Related forms:
broil⋅ing⋅ly, adverb
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2  [broil]
–noun
1. an angry quarrel or struggle; disturbance; tumult: a violent broil over who was at fault.
–verb (used without object)
2. to quarrel; brawl.
Origin:
1400–50; late ME broylen to present in disorder, quarrel < AF, OF broiller to jumble together < Gallo-Rom *brodiculāre, equiv. to *brod- (< Gmc; see broth, brewis ) + LL -iculāre v. suffix

Related forms:
broil⋅ing⋅ly, adverb
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broil 1   (broil)   
v.   broiled, broil·ing, broils

v.   tr.

  1. To cook by direct radiant heat, as over a grill or under an electric element.

  2. To expose to great heat.

v.   intr.
To be exposed to great heat.
n.  

  1. The act of broiling or the condition of being broiled.

  2. Food, especially meat, that is broiled.


[Middle English broilen, from Old French brusler, bruler, perhaps from usler, to burn (with br- from bruir, to burn), from Latin ustulāre, to scorch, from ustus, past participle of ūrere, to burn.]
broil 2   (broil)   
n.  A rowdy argument; a brawl. See Synonyms at brawl.
intr.v.   broiled, broil·ing, broils
To engage in a rowdy argument.

[From obsolete broil, to brawl, from Middle English broilen, from Anglo-Norman broiller, to mix up, confuse, from Old French brouiller, from breu, broth, brew, from Vulgar Latin *brodum, of Germanic origin; see bhreu- in Indo-European roots.]
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Word Origin & History

broil  (1)
"cook," 1375, from O.Fr. bruller "to broil, roast," from brosler "to burn," from L. ustulare "to scorch, singe," from ustus, pp. of urere "to burn." Alt. by infl. of Gmc. "burn" words beginning in br-.

broil  (2)
"quarrel," 1402, from Anglo-Fr. broiller "mix up, confuse," O.Fr. brooillier, probably from breu, bro "broth, brew," from Frankish or another Gmc. source (cf. O.H.G. brod "broth") akin to broth (see brew); also compare imbroglio.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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