if a situation or feeling boils up, people start to feel angry
to heat liquid, or to heat something in a liquid, until it boils
Anger was boiling up inside me.
As if it would boil up, bursting forth suddenly: scorching, burning up not only her but all around her.
I'd boil up a lobster, only I'm sick to the hind teeth of the damned things.
Keep the chicken bones and boil them up to make stock.
Malone felt the anger boil up in him, but somehow he sat on it.
Will you boil up some water?
boils up
boiling up
boiled up
There is no origin for this phrasal verb
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