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1. Cooked by radiant heat (as over a grill)
   "They ate broiled fish with a creamy cheese coating for an impressive flavor and .."
   - grilled

1. Cook under a broiler
   "broil fish"; "oven broil fish"
   - oven broil [N. Amer], grill
    
2. Heat by a natural force
   "The sun broils the valley in the summer"
   - bake, grill
    
3. Be very hot, due to hot weather or exposure to the sun
   "The town was broiling in the sun"
   - bake, grill

See also: broiler [N. Amer], cooked

Type of: be, grill, heat, heat up

Encyclopedia: Broil