parboil
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- v cook (vegetables) briefly
- In another scene, they threaten to parboil a man sweating off pounds in a steam cabinet, thus warming up for the moment when they thrust leggy Angie Dickinson headfirst out the .
- I may dodder and dote; I may parboil and platitudinize; I may become the butt and chopping block of all the bright, original spirits of the rising generation; but my reputation .
- Mauldin's originality hatches only after the most stringent of professional routines, of which the morning parboil is but a part.