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Parboil definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

P`ARBOIL, v.t.
1. To boil in part; to boil in a moderate degree.
2. To cause little pustules or pushes on the skin by means of heat; as parboiled wretches.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

v
1: cook (vegetables) briefly; "Parboil the beans before freezing them" [syn: blanch, parboil]

Merriam Webster's

transitive verb Etymology: Middle English, from parboilen to boil thoroughly, from Anglo-French parboiler, perboillir, from Late Latin perbullire, from Latin per- thoroughly (from per through) + bullire to boil, from bulla bubble — more at for Date: 14th century to boil briefly as a preliminary or incomplete cooking procedure

Oxford Reference Dictionary

v.tr. partly cook by boiling. Etymology: ME f. OF parbo(u)illir f. LL perbullire boil thoroughly (as PER-, bullire boil: confused with PART)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Parboil Par"boil`, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Parboiled; p. pr. & vb. n. Parboiling.] [OE. parboilen, OF. parbouillir to cook well; par through (see Par) + bouillir to boil, L. bullire. The sense has been influenced by E. part. See lst Boil.] 1. To boil or cook thoroughly. [Obs.] --B. Jonson. 2. To boil in part; to cook partially by boiling.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(parboils, parboiling, parboiled) If you parboil food, especially vegetables, you boil it until it is partly cooked. Roughly chop and parboil the potatoes. VERB: V n

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

v. a. Coddle, boil slightly.