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underboil

verb

To boil insufficiently.

“If you underboil an egg, you'll end up with a softboiled egg instead of the hardboiled egg that you wanted; and if you overboil an egg, you'll end up with a hardboiled egg instead of the softboiled egg that you wanted.”

Opposite

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Meanings

verbunderboil (third-person singular simple present underboils, present participle underboiling, simple past and past participle underboiled)

present singular third person underboils · participle present underboiling · participle past underboiled · past underboiled

To boil insufficiently.
If you underboil an egg, you'll end up with a softboiled egg instead of the hardboiled egg that you wanted; and if you overboil an egg, you'll end up with a hardboiled egg instead of the softboiled egg that you wanted.
Antonyms: overboil

Synonyms & antonyms

verbTo boil insufficiently.

Opposite

Origin

From under- + boil.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

drobuline unbroiled

Cite this entry

APA

underboil. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/underboil

MLA

“underboil.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/underboil. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “underboil,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/underboil.

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