parboil

Verb

Verb Forms: parboiled, parboiling, parboils

To partially cook food by boiling it briefly.
cook (vegetables) briefly
- "Parboil the beans before freezing them"
To boil food briefly so that it is partly cooked.

Examples

She would parboil her strategy, preparing her words before fully committing to a play.

Origin / Etymology

From Middle English parboyle, from Old French parbouillir (“to boil thoroughly”), from Medieval Latin perbulliō, from Latin per (“thoroughly”) + bulliō (“I boil”). Sense “to boil partially” (c.1440), rather than original “to boil thoroughly” is by corruption: associating the prefix with part (from Latin pars (“part”)) rather than per.

Synonyms

blanch

Scrabble Score: 11

parboil: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
parboil: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
parboil: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 14

parboil: valid Words With Friends Word