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boil up

verb

  1. (intr, adverb) to make tea

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Do we let our frustration boil up?

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We boil up a whole lot of potatoes and mash them or put them through a ricer or food mill.

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Barry’s fear started to boil up again.

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But when the Russians came, she felt a revulsion boil up inside her that surprised even herself.

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Green climbed up onto the ice and got the stove going to boil up some milk, while several men in the boats mooed like impatient calves.

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