OVEN BROIL

Pronunciation (US):

 Dictionary entry overview: What does oven broil mean? 

• OVEN BROIL (verb)
  The verb OVEN BROIL has 1 sense:

1. cook under a broiler

  Familiarity information: OVEN BROIL used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• OVEN BROIL (verb)

Meaning:

Cook under a broiler

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

broil; oven broil

Context example:

broil fish

Hypernyms (to "oven broil" is one way to...):

grill (cook over a grill)

Domain category:

cookery; cooking; preparation (the act of preparing something (as food) by the application of heat)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "oven broil"):

pan-broil (broil in a pan)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s something

Sentence example:

The chefs oven broil the vegetables