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# broil

«broil» in Mova's school dictionary: **to cook food over or under a hot flame or fire** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

verb (broils, broiled, broiling); noun (broils, old use)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To broil is to cook food over or under a hot flame or fire. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/broil/#m1)

2) (old use) A broil is a noisy quarrel or fight. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/broil/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

in tales meat or fish is cooked over a fire; in old writing a broil is a brawl

### examples

- Mum broils the fish under the grill. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/broil/#x1)
- Let the sausages broil until brown. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/broil/#x2)
- It is sad that such a day should bring broils and fights. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/broil/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «broil» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/broil/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.