The Collaborative International Dictionary
Overboil \O`ver*boil"\, v. i. To boil over or unduly.
Nor is discontent to keep the mind
Deep in its fountain, lest it overboil
In the hot throng.
--Byron.
Wiktionary
vb. To boil excessively.
WordNet
v. overflow or cause to overflow while boiling; "The milk is boiling over" [syn: boil over]
boil excessively; "The peas are overboiled"
Usage examples of "overboil".
Through the doorway into an apartment that smelted like overboiled cabbage and cat box and unfiltered foreign cigarettes, and they were ushered through a tiny hallway past several closed doors to the sitting room at the far end of the corridor, and were seated on a huge old horsehair sofa, disturbing an elderly gray cat in the process, who stretched, stood up, and walked, stiffly, to a distant part of the sofa, where he lay down, warily stared at each of them in turn, then closed one eye and went back to sleep.