if a liquid boils away, or if you boil it away, it disappears and turns to gas after reaching a very high temperature
Allow the liquid to boil away until you are left with tender vegetables and little moisture left in the pan.
Boil away about a third of the sauce.
Check every 20 minutes to make sure the water has not boiled away.
Remove lid and boil away liquid, pushing veg to the side.
boils away
boiling away
boiled away
There is no origin for this phrasal verb
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