boil vs spit

boil

verb
  • To be agitated like boiling water; to bubble; to effervesce. 

  • To form, or separate, by boiling or evaporation. 

  • To feel uncomfortably hot. 

  • To be moved or excited with passion; to be hot or fervid. 

  • To bring to a boil, to heat so as to cause the contents to boil. 

  • To begin to turn into a gas, seethe. 

  • To heat to the point where it begins to turn into a gas. 

  • To be uncomfortably hot. 

  • To cook in boiling water. 

noun
  • The point at which fluid begins to change to a vapour; the boiling point. 

  • A dish of boiled food, especially seafood. 

  • A social event at which people gather to boil and eat food, especially seafood. (Compare a bake or clambake.) 

  • The collective noun for a group of hawks. 

  • A localized accumulation of pus in the skin, resulting from infection. 

spit

verb
  • To utter (something) violently. 

  • To dig, to spade. 

  • To use a spit to cook; to attend to food that is cooking on a spit. 

  • To dig (something) using a spade; also, to turn (the soil) using a plough. 

  • To impale on a spit; to pierce with a sharp object. 

  • To evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc. 

  • To rap, to utter. 

  • To plant (something) using a spade. 

  • (in the form spitting) To spit facts; to tell the truth. 

  • To emit or expel in a manner similar to evacuating saliva from the mouth. 

  • To make a spitting sound, like an angry cat. 

  • To rain or snow slightly. 

noun
  • An instance of spitting; specifically, a light fall of rain or snow. 

  • Synonym of slam (“card game”) 

  • A thin metal or wooden rod on which meat is skewered for cooking, often over a fire. 

  • A person who exactly resembles someone else (usually in set phrases; see spitting image). 

  • A generally low, narrow, pointed, usually sandy peninsula. 

  • Saliva, especially when expectorated. 

  • The amount of soil that a spade holds; a spadeful. 

  • The depth to which the blade of a spade goes into the soil when it is used for digging; a layer of soil of the depth of a spade's blade. 

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