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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Intoxicated; drunk.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Raised to the boiling-point.
  • Prepared by being subjected to the heat of boiling water: sometimes substantively (from its use as a heading on bills of fare) for meat dressed or cooked by boiling: as, “a great piece of cold boiled,”

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Dressed or cooked by boiling; subjected to the action of a boiling liquid.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of boil.
  • adjective Cooked in boiling water.
  • adjective of water having reached the boiling point
  • adjective colloquial angry
  • adjective colloquial drunk

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective cooked in hot water

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