boils

Reaches 212 Fahrenheit

Boils covers both the verb and the noun.

Water boils when heated to the point where it bubbles and turns to vapor.

To boil something is to cook it in boiling water: boil the pasta for ten minutes.

Figuratively, emotions boil when they reach an intense point: His anger boiled over.

To boil down is to reduce to essentials.

A boil is also a painful, pus-filled skin infection—an inflamed swelling that eventually ruptures.

skin

abscess

Localized pus collection

carbuncleMulti-headed skin infection
furuncleBacterial skin abscess
pustulePus-filled skin lesion

cyst · lesion · lance · pus · infected · swelling · painful · drainage · staph · antibiotics

cooking

simmer

Cook just under boiling

stewSlow-simmered meat dish
brothClear simmered meat liquid
soupCooked liquid dish

stock · poach · blanch · pot · kettle · saucepan · water · eggs · potatoes · pasta

heat

bubbling

Forming gas spheres

steamHeated water's gaseous form
scaldingExtremely hot, burning
roilingChurning with turbulence

churning · geyser · hot springs · thermal · volcanic · sulfurous · erupting · vapor · cauldron · spitting

kayaking

hole

Absence in matter

waveOscillating motion through medium
hydraulicRelating to pressurized liquids
rapidMoving with haste

whitewater · feature · keeper · recirculating · flushing · river · current · turbulence · eddy · drop

anger

rage

Intense, violent anger

seethingIntensely, quietly enraged
fumingExtremely angry, visibly so
lividExtremely angry or discolored

blood · temper · fury · resentment · indignation · simmering · erupting · wrath · outrage · exasperation

reduction

down

Toward lower ground

concentratesDirects sustained attention
evaporatesChanges from liquid to gas
reducesMakes less in quantity

thickens · intensifies · syrup · glaze · sauce · stock · essence · condensed

boils

abscess

simmer

bubbling

hole

rage

down

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