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broil1 / broil/ • v. [tr.] cook (meat or fish) by exposure to direct, intense radiant heat: he broiled a wedge of sea bass [as adj.] (broiled) a broiled sirloin steak. ∎  [intr.] become very hot, esp. from the sun: the countryside lay broiling in the sun.broil2 • n. archaic a quarrel or a commotion.

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broil1 turmoil, quarrel. XVI. f. †broil vb. confuse, disturb (cf. EMBROIL) — AN. broiller, (O)F. brouiller, earlier brooillier :- Rom. *brodiculāre. Cf. IMBROGLIO.

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broil2 †burn XIV; grill XIV. Earliest forms (Sc.) brulʒe, broille, bru(y)le — OF. bru(s)ler (mod. brúler) burn :- Rom. *brustulāre, perh. f. Gmc. *brun- *bren- BURN2 + L. ūstulāre burn up.

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