emboil

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verb

To boil with anger; to effervesce.

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Meanings

verbemboil (third-person singular simple present emboils, present participle emboiling, simple past and past participle emboiled)

present singular third person emboils · participle present emboiling · participle past emboiled · past emboiled

  1. intransitiveobsoleteTo boil with anger; to effervesce.

    quench thy hot emboiling Wrath

    1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
  2. obsoletetransitiveTo cause to boil with anger; to irritate; to chafe.

    Emboyled, grieued, brent.

    1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Origin

From em- + boil.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

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APA

emboil. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/emboil

MLA

“emboil.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/emboil. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “emboil,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/emboil.

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