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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
broiling
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ the incredible broiling heat of a Mississippi summer
▪ Troops stood at attention under a broiling noon sun.
▪ We worked all day in the broiling sun.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ All of a sudden the far wall exploded inwards and a broiling mass of water burst into the room.
▪ And up from the city of fumes and smoke rose a broiling cloud of steam, covering the stars.
▪ Lucy threw down three glasses in succession like water in the broiling sun.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Broiling

Broiling \Broil"ing\, a. Excessively hot; as, a broiling sun. -- n. The act of causing anything to broil.

Broiling

Broil \Broil\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Broiled; p. pr. & vb. n. Broiling.] [OE. broilen, OF. bruillir, fr. bruir to broil, burn; of Ger. origin; cf. MHG. br["u]ejen, G. br["u]hen, to scald, akin to E. brood.]

  1. To cook by direct exposure to heat over a fire, esp. upon a gridiron over coals.

  2. To subject to great (commonly direct) heat.

Wiktionary
broiling

n. An instance of something being broiled. vb. (present participle of broil English)

WordNet
broiling

n. cooking by direct exposure to radiant heat (as over a fire or under a grill) [syn: broil, grilling]

Usage examples of "broiling".

She heard Madame Roussillon and Father Beret chatting in the kitchen, whence came a fragrance of broiling buffalo steak besprinkled with garlic.

Somehow, we kept most of them in check and controlled the peloton, but the days were broiling and full of tension.

As the aroma of broiling meat filled the kitchen, his nose stan:ed to go crazy and he got down on the floor in a supplicatory posture.

The smell of uncured wool lying in bales beneath the broiling sun was nearly overpowering.

I considered going after him, lest he freeze up again, somewhere out of sight, and end up baking his brainpan beneath the heat of the broiling midday sun.

I suppose you expect me to bake myself in the broiling sun for the sake of hitting the target a hairsbreadth closer to the center.

The breasts were huge, globular, absurd, alternately filling and emptying with broiling, photoluminescent red liquid, levels now rising, now filling, now waterfalling down the insides of the belly and legs, then sometimes rising again all the way to the raised arms and smiling face.

At the moment in question, I stood broiling under a sun undimmed by atmosphere, my poor tired flesh encased in a smelly vacsuit with an underpowered cooling unit, as I watched six Taladoran technicians struggle to complete the power hookups for the fixed-beamer battery that was our sole means of defense.

He tried vainly to stop his nose to the nauseating stench of broiling flesh, his ears to the gasps and whining moans of his patient.

None of them felt that the service due the High Lord included or should include broiling to death for him.

From the ridge top they looked out over an endless, unbroken expanse of shattered black rock and miles-wide beds of dark brown gravel, shimmering under a broiling sun.

His room was under the roof, broiling in summer and riven by gusts and the icy whistling draughts of winter, when he lay there under all the coats and coverings he could pile above him.

Every second the Earth is visited by 10,000 trillion trillion tiny, all but massless neutrinos (mostly shot out by the nuclear broilings of the Sun), and virtually all of them pass right through the planet and everything that is on it, including you and me, as if it weren’t there.

As he climbed into his car, the broiling crucibles of fury within him were simmering down to a steady white-hot calidity of purpose.

Then she threaded the succulent caps onto one of the skewers, spread on butter and a bit of garlic, and began broiling the exotic fungi.