Crossword clues for aboil
aboil
- Bubbling, in a way
- In an excited state
- Hot and bubbling
- Buzzing, as with excitement
- Bubbling on the range
- Bubbling and steaming
- More than simmering
- Mad as can be
- Bubbling hot
- Obviously hot on the range
- Bubbling, like hot water
- Tea-ready, as water
- State of excited activity
- Ready for poaching, maybe
- Ready for pasta, say
- Ready for cooking spaghetti
- Like water at 212° Fahrenheit
- Like very hot water
- Like the water in a whistling teakettle
- Like really hot water
- Like a whistling teakettle
- Like a simmering pot
- Bubbling on a stove
- Bubbling in the pot
- Bubbling in a pot
- Bring to ---
- Bring to __ (start bubbling)
- At full bubble
- At 212 degrees Fahrenheit
- Bubbling on the stove
- Irate
- Excitedly active
- Simmering
- Buzzing with excitement
- Agitated
- Cooking
- Full of excitement
- Bubbling over
- Intensely excited
- Bubbling on the burner
- In a frenzy
- Seething
- Furious
- In a tumultuous state
- Like geysers
- Bubbling up
- With lid rattling, say
- Bubbling, as water
- Intensely stirred up
- Intensely hot, in poesy
- Bubbling, as hot water
- Bring to ___
- Like an unwatched pot
- Infuriated
- In a tizzy
- Hot and bothered
- A watched pot is never this
Wiktionary
a. 1 In a boil; boiling. (First attested in the mid 19th century.)(R:SOED5: page=6) 2 Figuratively, heated up; excited. (First attested in the mid 19th century.) adv. 1 In a boil; boiling. (First attested in the mid 19th century.)(R:SOED5: page=6) 2 Figuratively, heated up; excited. (First attested in the mid 19th century.)
Usage examples of "aboil".
A swarm of birds-gulls and ternswas wheeling over half an acre of water that seemed to be aboil with living things.
I paused to take in the multicolored tapestry of melted and rehardened minerals, still furiously aboil to the untutored eye.
It was filled not quite to the brim with a mass of what looked like thick red slime and it bubbled continuously as if aboil on some gigantic stove.
Rumor ran through the station corridors, aboil with the confusion and anger of residents and companies that had been turned out with all their property.
The cooking, I can tell you, kept her nose to the pot, and even if there was nothing in it, even if there was no pot, she had to keep watching that it came aboil just the same.
From the walls of the castillo, it could be seen that all the town was aboil as the four galleons sailed in from the sea.
And in those times it was well to have the strong arms and sharp blades of any fighters available, for the Lowlands to the north were all aboil and the border was all aflame from end to end.
Earthside was aboil with negotiations between the Consortium and Airbus, with lawyers angrily slapping writs on each other, over fuel four hundred million miles away.
Casting to and fro, he soon found what he expected, a concavity in the tumbled snowlike material, slightly aboil.
A mean and bitter place, drenched by storms, scoured by wind, the seas all around aboil where the crosscurrents from those two vast bodies of water, the Sea of Blood and the Illuminated Sea, were thrown together.