Boils - English meaning

noun

A swollen area within body tissue, containing an accumulation of pus.

Usage examples:

Once the abscesses burst, they usually discharge for several days before gradually healing up

noun

An inflamed swelling or sore on the skin.

Usage examples:

The dust of books causes blains and hangnails; ingested it provokes dyspepsia, flatulence, and hear…

noun

A small mark or flaw which spoils the appearance of something.

Usage examples:

The girl's hands were without a blemish

verb

Spoil the appearance or quality of (something).

Usage examples:

His reign as world champion has been blemished by controversy

noun

A mark or fault that spoils the appearance of someone or something

Usage examples:

Makeup can cover up your skin blemishes., only one blemish spoiled her school record.

noun

A small bubble on the skin filled with serum and caused by friction, burning, or other damage.

Usage examples:

His heels were covered in blisters

verb

Form blisters on the skin or other surface.

Usage examples:

The surface of the door began to blister

noun

A thin sphere of liquid enclosing air or another gas.

Usage examples:

We'd shake up a piece of soap in a tin of warm water and blow bubbles

verb

(of a liquid) form rising bubbles of gas or air.

Usage examples:

A pot of coffee bubbled away on the stove

noun

A ball of air in a liquid or on its surface, or in the air

Usage examples:

When water begins to boil, small bubbles form around the edge of the pot., the water in the pot beg…

noun

A severe abscess or multiple boil in the skin, typically infected with staphylococcus bacteria.

Usage examples:

It can be made into a salve or the tincture can be painted on boils, felons, carbuncles, abscesses,…

noun

A large painful swelling under the skin

noun

A painful, itching swelling on a hand or foot, caused by poor circulation in the skin when exposed to cold.

Usage examples:

As a cream or ointment, it can be applied directly to bruises, sprains, strains, chilblains or pain…

noun

A painful red swelling on the toes or fingers, caused by cold weather

noun

A machine for making butter by shaking milk or cream.

Usage examples:

Mothers made butter from milk, they mixed the milk in a butter churn.

verb

Short for churn rate.

verb

To move violently

Usage examples:

[ i ] the water was churning and the boat was rocking., [ m ] the fish churned up the water when we…

verb

Prepare (food, a dish, or a meal) by mixing, combining, and heating the ingredients.

Usage examples:

Shall i cook dinner tonight?

noun

A person who prepares and cooks food, especially as a job or in a specified way.

Usage examples:

Susan was a school cook

noun

Transform by heating

noun

A thin-walled hollow organ or cavity in an animal or plant, containing a liquid secretion; a sac, vesicle, or bladder.

Usage examples:

In the lumen of the cysts, eosinophilic or blue secretions were frequently seen, with sometimes tar…

noun

A round growth under the skin or deeper in the body, containing liquid or tissue

verb

(of a liquid) give off bubbles.

Usage examples:

The waves seemed to effervesce as they swept by

verb

If a liquid effervesces, it produces small bubbles.

noun

An act or instance of erupting.

Usage examples:

The eruption of vesuvius

noun

An occasion when a volcano explodes, and flames and rocks come out of it, or the act of doing this

Usage examples:

A volcanic eruption, around the year 600, the eruption of a nearby volcano buried ceren's buildings…

verb

(of a liquid) produce bubbles of gas and make a hissing sound.

Usage examples:

His lemonade was still fizzing at the top of the glass

noun

The quality of being fizzy; effervescence.

Usage examples:

The champagne had lost its fizz

noun

A mass of small bubbles formed on or in liquid, typically by agitation or fermentation.

Usage examples:

A beer with a thick head of foam

verb

Form or produce a mass of small bubbles; froth.

Usage examples:

The sea foamed beneath them

noun

A mass of small, usually white, bubbles formed on the surface of a liquid

Usage examples:

The waves were high and capped with foam., the suds in the sink foamed up when she added hot water.

noun

A mass of small bubbles in liquid caused by agitation, fermentation, or salivating.

Usage examples:

Leave the yeast until there is a good head of froth

verb

Form or contain a rising or overflowing mass of small bubbles.

Usage examples:

The red blood frothed at his lips

noun

A mass of small bubbles, esp. on the surface of a liquid

noun

Technical term for boil2.

noun

A small swelling formed on the gum over an abscess at the root of a tooth.

Usage examples:

An abscess may form (‘gumboil’), sometimes with facial swelling, fever, and illness.

noun

The quality of being hot; high temperature.

Usage examples:

The fierce heat of the sun

verb

Make or become hot or warm.

Usage examples:

The room faces north and is difficult to heat

noun

A small hard inflamed spot on the skin.

Usage examples:

He had a pimple at the corner of his mouth

noun

A small, raised spot on the skin

Usage examples:

A pimply teenager

noun

A spot or pimple.

Usage examples:

The man with the chronic plooks

noun

A small blister or pimple on the skin containing pus.

Usage examples:

Lesions consist of erythematous papules, nodules, pustules, verrucous, or granulomatous lesions.

noun

A small raised area on the skin that contains pus (= thick liquid)

verb

Make (a liquid) turbid or muddy by disturbing the sediment.

Usage examples:

Winds roil these waters

verb

To (cause to) move quickly in a twisting circular movement

Usage examples:

Fierce winds roiled the sea., a massive tower of smoke roiled skyward., fears about japan roiled wo…

verb

(of a liquid) boil or be turbulent as if boiling.

Usage examples:

The grey ocean seethed

verb

To feel very angry

Usage examples:

She was still seething, remembering how rudely she was treated.

verb

(of water or food that is being heated) stay just below boiling point while bubbling gently.

Usage examples:

The goulash was simmering slowly in the oven

noun

A state or temperature just below boiling point.

Usage examples:

Bring the water to a simmer

verb

To cook a liquid or something with liquid in it at a temperature slightly below boiling

Usage examples:

[ i ] add broth and simmer for 15 minutes., bring the water to a simmer.

noun

A small round or roundish mark, differing in colour or texture from the surface around it.

Usage examples:

Ladybirds have black spots on their red wing covers

verb

Short for spotlight.

verb

A point located with respect to surface features of some region

noun

A dish of meat and vegetables cooked slowly in liquid in a closed dish or pan.

Usage examples:

Lamb stew

verb

(with reference to meat, fruit, or other food) cook or be cooked slowly in liquid in a closed dish or pan.

Usage examples:

Beef stewed in wine

noun

A pond or large tank for keeping fish for eating.

Usage examples:

On one of my local stew ponds there is an attitude that if it's not into double figures it ain't wo…

noun

An abnormal enlargement of a part of the body, typically as a result of an accumulation of fluid.

Usage examples:

Painless swellings may appear in the lower abdomen

adjective

Becoming greater in intensity, number, amount, or volume.

Usage examples:

The swelling ranks of irish singer-songwriters

verb

(especially of a part of the body) become larger or rounder in size, typically as a result of an accumulation of fluid.

Usage examples:

Her bruised knee was already swelling up

noun

A swelling of a part of the body, generally without inflammation, caused by an abnormal growth of tissue, whether benign or malignant.

Usage examples:

She underwent six months of chemotherapy to try to shrink the tumour

noun

A mass of diseased cells that might become a lump or cause illness

Usage examples:

They found a malignant tumour in her breast., a benign tumour, a brain tumour

noun

An open sore on an external or internal surface of the body, caused by a break in the skin or mucous membrane which fails to heal. ulcers range from small, painful sores in the mouth to bedsores and serious lesions of the stomach or intestine.

Usage examples:

A common form of mouth ulcer, canker sores occur in women more often than in men.

noun

A sore on the skin or inside the body that will not heal without treatment

Usage examples:

A stomach ulcer

noun

A boil or other swelling or growth on the skin, especially a sebaceous cyst.

Usage examples:

Throughout the sermon that morning, inman sat staring at ada's neck and listening as monroe repeate…

noun

Old-fashioned spelling of wynn.