To use the boil wash programme on a washing machine

(of a boiled egg) Cooked to a solid consistency. / (of a person, especially a detective) Callous and unsentimental.

simple past tense and past participle of hard-boil

(physics, chemistry) The temperature at which a liquid boils, with the vapor pressure equal to the given external pressure. / (idiomatic) The state of being heated, with high aggression.

An egg which has been cooked in the shell in boiling water. It can be hard-boiled or soft-boiled.

(of a boiled egg) cooked to a soft consistency with the yolk still runny / softhearted or sentimental

(transitive and intransitive) To reduce in volume by boiling. / (intransitive) To become reduced (to the most central elements or ingredients: to the essence, core, or implication for action).

Any of a number of social events where shellfish are cooked and eaten. / A dish made with boiled seafood.

(uncountable) A spice mixture used to flavor the water in which crabs or other shellfish are boiled. / (countable) A social event where boiled crabs are eaten.

plural of boiled egg