boiled
adjective
well-boiled
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a word derived from
boiled.
Example Sentences
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It is a wonderfully nourishing dish, but, like most well-boiled English cabbage, dull on the palate.
From Time Magazine Archive
Simply by walking up and shaking a set of chitterlings or a well-boiled hog maw at them during the clear light of day!
From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison
I never purchased more radiant good-will for less money, but the combined effect of the well-boiled tea and the boiling orchestrion produced many village nightmares, so the mothers told me at chapel next morning.
From The Diary of a Goose Girl by Claude A. Shepperson
Then she stole out and came back with a pitcher of hot, well-boiled tea, after which she tidied the room and made everything right for next day.
From The Girl and the Kingdom Learning to Teach by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin
The protoplasm of the living plant-cell looks like a slimy translucent mass which has been superficially compared in appearance to well-boiled sago or clear gum.
From Disease in Plants by H. Marshall Ward
