aboil
Americanadverb
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Make the tea as soon as the water is aboil.
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in a state of excited activity.
The street was aboil with Saturday shoppers.
Etymology
Origin of aboil
Example Sentences
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The waterways that figure so prominently in the story—the Madison, among them—are aboil with trout.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 13, 2026
Last week�more than six months after the first atomic bomb exploded�the New Mexican soil which melted to greenish glass was still aboil with radioactivity.
From Time Magazine Archive
There was no immediate danger of a war between the two countries, but the flare-up was yet another sign of the tense atmosphere in a region that is increasingly aboil with Marxist guerrilla activity.
From Time Magazine Archive
But by last week Park Forest was hard aboil with scalding controversy of an entirely different sort.
From Time Magazine Archive
I wanted peace and quiet, tranquillity, but was too much aboil inside.
From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison
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