parboil

== English == === Etymology === From Middle English parboyle, from Old French parbouillir (“to boil thoroughly”), from Medieval Latin perbulliō, from Latin per (“thoroughly”) + bulliō (“to boil”). Sense “to boil partially” (c.1440), rather than original “to boil thoroughly” is by corruption: associating the prefix with part (from Latin pars (“part”)) rather than per. === Pronunciation === === Verb === parboil (third-person singular simple present parboils, present participle parboiling, simple past and past participle parboiled) To boil food briefly so that it is partly cooked. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== blanch ==== Translations ==== === References === === Anagrams === bipolar