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parboiled

verb

past tense of parboil

as in boiled

to cook in a liquid heated to the point that it gives off steam parboil a lobster

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Recent Examples of parboiled It can be used on any vegetable that can be parboiled. — CBS News, 21 Nov. 2025

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Doing laundry has come a long way since people beat clothes on a rock or boiled them in a big cast-iron tub over a wood fire.

— Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 5 July 2026
They can be made into an omelet, scrambled, boiled, baked, poached, or fried.

— Jessica Swirble, Verywell Health, 3 July 2026

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