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boiling

adjective as in very hot

adjective as in angered

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Do not use boiling water to de-ice windscreens - hot water can crack the glass, and the water will only freeze again on the screen, or on the ground where you are standing.

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Now, after being washed in boiling water and bleach, it was no longer brown at all, but a perfectly lovely, nearly white color, not quite beige, not quite cream.

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At that point Mama would pick the chicken up and drop it into boiling water, which would loosen the feathers so that she could pull them off.

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Under the right pressure conditions, ice can form at room temperature or even at temperatures higher than its usual boiling point.

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At the heart of each nest, in the innermost container, was a nuclear boiling water reactor.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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