Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb broil

3 senses of broil

Sense 1
broil, oven broil -- (cook under a broiler; "broil fish")
       => grill -- (cook over a grill; "grill the sausages")

Sense 2
broil, bake -- (heat by a natural force; "The sun broils the valley in the summer")
       => heat, heat up -- (make hot or hotter; "the sun heats the oceans"; "heat the water on the stove")

Sense 3
bake, broil -- (be very hot, due to hot weather or exposure to the sun; "The town was broiling in the sun"; "the tourists were baking in the heat")
       => be -- (have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun); "John is rich"; "This is not a good answer")

Antonyms of adj broiled

1 sense of broiled

Sense 1
broiled, grilled -- (cooked by radiant heat (as over a grill))

INDIRECT (VIA cooked) -> raw -- (not treated with heat to prepare it for eating)

Similarity of adj broiled

1 sense of broiled

Sense 1
broiled, grilled -- (cooked by radiant heat (as over a grill))
       => cooked (vs. raw) -- (having been prepared for eating by the application of heat)

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