böld — meaning in English

English meaning

• boil verb To heat a liquid until it bubbles and turns to vapor.
• carbuncle noun A deep-red or fiery colored garnet or other dark red precious stone, especially when cut cabochon.
• ulcer noun An open, slow-healing sore on the skin or inside the body, often caused by irritation or infection.

Senses

böld is used for these senses in English:

• boil A localized accumulation of pus in the skin, resulting from infection.
• carbuncle (pathology) An abscess larger than a boil, usually with one or more openings draining pus onto the skin. It is usually caused by staphylococcal infection.
• ulcer (figurative) Anything that festers and corrupts like an open sore; a vice in character.

boil — full definition

1. verb To heat a liquid until it bubbles and turns to vapor.
2. noun A painful, swollen, pus-filled lump on the skin caused by infection.

carbuncle — full definition

1. noun A deep-red or fiery colored garnet or other dark red precious stone, especially when cut cabochon.
2. noun A charge or bearing supposed to represent the precious stone, with eight sceptres or staves radiating from a common centre; an escarbuncle.
3. noun An abscess larger than a boil, usually with one or more openings draining pus onto the skin. It is usually caused by staphylococcal infection.
4. noun An unpopular or ugly building; an eyesore.

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