parboil

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From Old French parboillir (to boil thoroughly), from Medieval Latin perbullire, from Latin per (thoroughly) + bullire (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.[1]

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parboil (third-person singular simple present parboils, present participle parboiling, simple past and past participle parboiled)

  1. To boil food briefly so that it is partly cooked.

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  1. ^parboil” in the Online Etymology Dictionary, Douglas Harper, 2001

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