Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to broil
Participle: broiled
Gerund: broiling
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | broil |
| you | broil |
| he;she;it | broils |
| we | broil |
| you | broil |
| they | broil |
Perfect
| I | have broiled |
| you | have broiled |
| he;she;it | has broiled |
| we | have broiled |
| you | have broiled |
| they | have broiled |
Past
| I | broiled |
| you | broiled |
| he;she;it | broiled |
| we | broiled |
| you | broiled |
| they | broiled |
Pluperfect
| I | had broiled |
| you | had broiled |
| he;she;it | had broiled |
| we | had broiled |
| you | had broiled |
| they | had broiled |
Future
| I | will broil |
| you | will broil |
| he;she;it | will broil |
| we | will broil |
| you | will broil |
| they | will broil |
Future Perfect
| I | will have broiled |
| you | will have broiled |
| he;she;it | will have broiled |
| we | will have broiled |
| you | will have broiled |
| they | will have broiled |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | broil |
| you | broil |
| he;she;it | broil |
| we | broil |
| you | broil |
| they | broil |
Perfect
| I | have broiled |
| you | have broiled |
| he;she;it | have broiled |
| we | have broiled |
| you | have broiled |
| they | have broiled |
Imperfect
| I | broiled |
| you | broiled |
| he;she;it | broiled |
| we | broiled |
| you | broiled |
| they | broiled |
Pluperfect
| I | had broiled |
| you | had broiled |
| he;she;it | had broiled |
| we | had broiled |
| you | had broiled |
| they | had broiled |
Conditional
Present
| I | would broil |
| you | would broil |
| he;she;it | would broil |
| we | would broil |
| you | would broil |
| they | would broil |
Perfect
| I | would have broiled |
| you | would have broiled |
| he;she;it | would have broiled |
| we | would have broiled |
| you | would have broiled |
| they | would have broiled |
Imperative
| you | broil |
| we | Let's broil |
| you | broil |
Verbs conjugated like 'broil'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'broil'
boil,
brail,
broid,
droil,
roil,
anoil,
bail,
basil,
bemoil,
beroll,
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. "cook," 1375, from O.Fr.
bruller "to broil, roast," from
brosler "to burn," from L.
ustulare "to scorch, singe," from
ustus, pp. of
urere "to burn." Alt. by infl. of Gmc. "burn" words beginning in
br-.
2. From Middle English broylen, brulen (“to broil, cook”), from Anglo-Norman bruiller, broiller (“to broil, roast”), Old French brusler, bruller (“to broil, roast, char”), a blend of two Old French verbs:
3. * bruir (“to burn”), from Frankish *brōjan (“to burn, scald”)
4. * usler (“to scorch”), from Latin ustulō (“to scorch”) See: Middle English '
broylen', Latin '
ustulō'.
Verbs referencing "broil"
Esperanto
bruli.
Sample Sentences
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[...] nearly ready. He had ordered ‘wheat-bread and chicken fixings, ’ in preference to ‘corn-bread and common doings. ’ The latter kind of rejection includes only pork and bacon. The former comprehends broiled ham, sausages, veal cutlets, steaks, and such other viands of that nature as may be supposed, by a tolerably wide poetical construction, ‘to fix ’ a chicken comfortably in the digestive organs of [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)