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boiling
CIDE DICTIONARY
boiling, a.
Heated to the point of bubbling; heaving with bubbles; in tumultuous agitation, as boiling liquid; surging; seething; swelling with heat, ardor, or passion. [1913 Webster]
boiling, n.
- The act of ebullition or of tumultuous agitation. [1913 Webster]
- Exposure to the action of a hot liquid. [1913 Webster]
THESAURUS
boiling
agitation, ardent, baking, barbecuing, basting, blistering, bluster, bobbery, boil, boiling over, braising, brewing, broil, broiling, brouhaha, bubbliness, bubbling, burning, burning hot, burning with excitement, bustle, canicular, carbonation, catering, churn, coction, commotion, conturbation, cookery, cooking, cuisine, culinary science, decoction, discomposure, disorder, disquiet, disquietude, disturbance, domestic science, ebullience, ebulliency, ebullient, ebulliometer, ebullition, effervescence, effervescency, embroilment, excitement, febrile, ferment, fermentation, fervent, fervid, fever, feverish, feverishness, fidgets, fiery, fizz, fizzle, flaming, flap, flurry, flushed, fluster, flutteration, foaming, foment, frothiness, frothing, frying, fume, fuss, glowing, grilling, heated, hectic, het up, home economics, hot, hot as fire, hot as hell, hubbub, hurly-burly, in rut, inquietude, jitters, jumpiness, like a furnace, like an oven, maelstrom, malaise, moil, nerviness, nervosity, nervousness, nutrition, overheated, overwarm, pan-broiling, parching, passionate, perturbation, piping hot, poaching, red-hot, restlessness, roasting, roil, rout, row, sauteing, scalding, scorching, searing, seethe, seething, sexually excited, shirring, simmer, simmering, sizzling, sizzling hot, smoking hot, smoldering, sparkle, spumescence, steaming, steamy, steeping, stewing, stir, sudorific, sweating, sweaty, sweltering, sweltry, swirl, to-do, toasting, torrid, trepidation, trepidity, tumult, tumultuation, turbidity, turbulence, turmoil, twitter, unease, unrest, upset, warm, white-hotROGET THESAURUS
boiling
Resentment
N resentment, displeasure, animosity, anger, wrath, indignation, exasperation, bitter resentment, wrathful indignation, pique, umbrage, huff, miff, soreness, dudgeon, acerbity, virulence, bitterness, acrimony, asperity, spleen, gall, heart-burning, heart-swelling, rankling, ill humor, bad humor, ill temper, bad temper, irascibility, ill blood, revenge, excitement, irritation, warmth, bile, choler, ire, fume, pucker, dander, ferment, ebullition, towering passion, acharnement, angry mood, taking, pet, tiff, passion, fit, tantrums, burst, explosion, paroxysm, storm, rage, fury, desperation, violence, fire and fury, vials of wrath, gnashing of teeth, hot blood, high words, scowl, sulks, affront, provocation, offense, indignity, grudge, crow to pluck, bone to pick, sore subject, casus belli, ill turn, outrage, Furies, Eumenides, buffet, slap in the face, box on the ear, rap on the knuckles, angry, wrath, irate, ireful, wrathful, cross, Achillean, sulky, bitter, virulent, acrimonious &c (discourteous), violent, warm, burning, boiling, boiling over, fuming, raging, foaming, foaming at the mouth, convulsed with rage, offended, waxy, acharne, wrought, worked up, indignant, hurt, sore, set against, fierce, wild, rageful, furious, mad with rage, fiery, infuriate, rabid, savage, relentless, flushed with anger, flushed with rage, in a huff, in a stew, in a fume, in a pucker, in a passion, in a rage, in a fury, in a taking, in a way, on one's high ropes, up in arms, in high dudgeon, angrily, in the height of passion, in the heat of passion, in the heat of the moment, Int, tantaene animis coelestibus irae!, marry come up!, zounds!, 'sdeath!, one's blood being up, one's back being up, one's monkey being up, fervens difficili bile jecur, the gorge rising, eyes flashing fire, the blood rising, the blood boiling, haeret lateri lethalis arundo, beware the fury of a patient man, furor arma ministrat, ira furor brevis est, quem Jupiter vult perdere dementat prius, What, drunk with choler?.Vaporization
N vaporization, volatilization, gasification, evaporation, vaporation, distillation, cupellation, cohobation, sublimination, exhalation, volatility, vaporizer, still, retort, fumigation, steaming, bay salt, chloride of sodium, mister, spray, bubble, effervescence, ', volatilized, reeking, volatile, evaporable, vaporizable, bubbly, effervescent, boiling, Specific Fluids.Calefaction
N calefaction, increase of temperature, heating, calefaction, tepefaction, torrefaction, melting, fusion, liquefaction, burning, ambustion, combustion, incension, accension, concremation, cremation, scorification, cautery, cauterization, ustulation, calcination, cracking, refining, incineration, cineration, carbonization, cupellation, ignition, inflammation, adustion, flagration, deflagration, conflagration, empyrosis, incendiarism, arson, auto dafe, boiling, coction, ebullition, estuation, elixation, decoction, ebullioscope, geyser, distillation (vaporization), furnace, blanket, flannel, fur, wadding, clothing, still, refinery, fractionating column, fractionating tower, cracking tower, match, incendiary, petroleuse, cauterizer, caustic, lunar caustic, alkali, apozem, moxa, acid, aqua fortis, aqua regia, catheretic, nitric acid, nitrochloro-hydric acid, nitromuriatic acid, radioactivity, gamma rays, alpha particles, beta rays, X-rays, radiation, cosmic radiation, background radiation, radioactive isotopes, tritium, uranium, plutonium, radon, radium, sunstroke, coup de soleil, insolation, pottery, ceramics, crockery, porcelain, china, earthenware, stoneware, pot, mug, terra cotta, brick, clinker, cinder, ash, scoriae, embers, soot, slag, coke, carbon, charcoal, wood alcohol, turpentine, tea tree oil, gasoline, kerosene, naptha, fuel oil (fuel), wax, paraffin, residue, tar, inflammability, combustibility, diathermancy, transcalency, conduction, convection, radiation, radiant heat, heat conductivity, conductivity, thermal expansion, coefficient of expansion, heated, molten, sodden, r_echauff_e, heating, adust, inflammable, combustible, diathermal, diathermanous, burnt, volcanic, radioactive.For further exploring for "boiling" in Webster Dictionary Online