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OVEN BROIL

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Cook under a broiler

Example:

broil fish

Synonyms:

broil; oven broil

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "oven broil" is one way to...):

grill (cook over or under a grill)

Domain category:

cookery; cooking; preparation (the act of preparing something (as food) by the application of heat)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "oven broil"):

pan-broil (broil in a pan)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s something

Sentence example:

The chefs oven broil the vegetables

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