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grill
1[ gril ]
noun
- a grated utensil for broiling meat, fish, vegetables, etc., over a fire; gridiron.
- a dish of grilled meat, fish, etc. Compare mixed grill.
- Philately. a group of small pyramidal marks, embossed or impressed in parallel rows on certain U.S. and Peruvian stamps of the late 19th century to prevent erasure of cancellation marks.
verb (used with object)
- to broil on a gridiron or other apparatus over or before a fire.
Synonyms: barbecue
- to subject to severe and persistent cross-examination or questioning.
Synonyms: probe, interrogate
- to torment with heat.
Synonyms: torture
- to mark with a series of parallel bars like those of a grill.
verb (used without object)
- to undergo broiling.
grill
2[ gril ]
noun
grill
1/ ɡrɪl /
grill
2/ ɡrɪl /
verb
- to cook (meat, fish, etc) by direct heat, as under a grill or over a hot fire, or (of meat, fish, etc) to be cooked in this way Usual US and Canadian wordbroil
- tr; usually passive to torment with or as if with extreme heat
the travellers were grilled by the scorching sun
- informal.tr to subject to insistent or prolonged questioning
noun
- a device with parallel bars of thin metal on which meat, fish, etc, may be cooked by a fire; gridiron
- a device on a cooker that radiates heat downwards for grilling meat, fish, etc
- food cooked by grilling
- See grillroom
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Derived Forms
- ˈgriller, noun
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Word History and Origins
Origin of grill1
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Example Sentences
He took her to the Savoy Grill to eat lobster, and to his favorite Mexican joint for hot enchiladas.
Also, Mary is dead now and her grill has probably been blown to smithereens.
Called my friends Cindy and Gary and they came over and we put steaks on the grill and smoked cigars and got drunk.
The air around the grill clouds with the steam of sizzling onions.
McDonald channeled us into Holiday's last year of life, in Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill.
From the tables outside, one can see into the small kitchen, with its polished copper sauce-pans hanging about the grill.
So she nodded good-humouredly at her son and let the subject of the Piccadilly Grill drop.
Catching the grill with one hand as he rushed through the door, Shelby sought to slam it shut and latch it.
At their most adventurous they would lunch or dine in the neutral region of the grill-room at the Grand Babylon.
But it is the etiquette and tradition of the Grill, that whoever enters it must speak with whomever he finds there.
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