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boil up

verb

  1. intr, adverb to make tea


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Communal kitchens boil up water for noodles and everyone pitches in.

Then boil up twice into resolutions and votes of thanks, and let the whole toast for at least three hours.

Put in some stoned and scalded olives, which boil up for ten minutes and dish up with the duck.

This formation of gas in the molten puddle causes the whole charge to boil up like an ice-cream soda.

They boil up like water in a kettle, and are hot enough to cook eggs.

Let it boil up again and skim; then add the sugar and stir until dissolved.

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