Synonyms of the word parboil


PARBOILBLANCH - COOK

parboil

  • v. To boil food briefly so that it is partly cooked.

blanch

  • v. (intransitive) To grow or become white.
  • v. (transitive) To take the color out of, and make white; to bleach.
  • v. (transitive, cooking) To cook by dipping briefly into boiling water, then directly into cold water.
  • v. (transitive) To whiten, for example the surface of meat, by plunging into boiling water and afterwards…
  • v. (transitive) To bleach by excluding the light, for example the stalks or leaves of plants, by earthing…
  • v. (transitive) To make white by removing the skin of, for example by scalding.
  • v. (transitive) To give a white lustre to (silver, before stamping, in the process of coining).
  • v. (tntransitive) To cover (sheet iron) with a coating of tin.
  • v. (transitive, figuratively) To whiten; to give a favorable appearance to; to whitewash; to palliate.
  • v. To avoid, as from fear; to evade; to leave unnoticed.
  • v. To cause to turn aside or back.
  • v. To use evasion.

cook

  • n. (cooking) A person who prepares food for a living.
  • n. (cooking) The head cook of a manor house.
  • n. (slang) One who manufactures certain illegal drugs, especially meth.
  • n. (slang) A session of manufacturing certain illegal drugs, especially meth.
  • n. A fish, the European striped wrasse.
  • v. (transitive) To prepare (food) for eating by heating it, often by combining it with other ingredients.
  • v. (intransitive) To prepare (unspecified) food for eating by heating it, often by combining it with other…
  • v. (intransitive) To be being cooked.
  • v. (intransitive, figuratively) To be uncomfortably hot.
  • v. (transitive, slang) To hold onto (a grenade) briefly after igniting the fuse, so that it explodes almost…
  • v. To concoct or prepare.
  • v. To tamper with or alter; to cook up.
  • v. (intransitive, idiomatic, jazz, slang) To play or improvise in an inspired and rhythmically exciting way…
  • v. (intransitive, idiomatic, music, slang) To play music vigorously.
  • v. (obsolete, rare, intransitive) To make the noise of the cuckoo.
  • v. (Britain, dialect, obsolete) To throw.

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