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Grill

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Noun

1. grill, grillroom

a restaurant where food is cooked on a grill

2. grill, grille, grillwork

a framework of metal bars used as a partition or a grate

Example Sentences:
'he cooked hamburgers on the grill'

Verb

3. grill

cook over a grill

Example Sentences:
'grill the sausages'

4. grill

examine thoroughly

Example Sentences:
'the student was grilled for two hours on the subject of phonology'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Grill

see synonyms of grill
verb
1. 
to cook (meat, fish, etc) by direct heat, as under a grill or over a hot fire, or (of meat, fish, etc) to be cooked in this way
. Usual US and Canadian word: broil
2. (tr; usually passive)
to torment with or as if with extreme heat
the travellers were grilled by the scorching sun
3. (transitive) informal
to subject to insistent or prolonged questioning
noun
4. 
a device with parallel bars of thin metal on which meat, fish, etc, may be cooked by a fire; gridiron
5. 
a device on a cooker that radiates heat downwards for grilling meat, fish, etc
6. 
food cooked by grilling
7.  grillroom
noun
a variant spelling of grille

Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers

Grill

see synonyms of grill
noun
1. 
a cooking unit having parallel metal bars or wires on which to broil meat or fish, as
a. 
a portable or stationary outdoor device fueled by gas or charcoal
b. 
an indoor unit, sometimes part of a range
2. 
a large griddle
3. 
grilled food
4. 
grillroom
verb transitive
5. 
to cook on a grill; broil
6. 
to torture by applying heat
7.  US
to question relentlessly; cross-examine searchingly
verb intransitive
8. 
to be subjected to grilling
noun
alt. sp. of
grille

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Grill

see synonyms of grill
tr.v. grilled, grill·ing, grills
1. To broil on a gridiron.
2. To torture or afflict as if by broiling.
3. Informal To question relentlessly; cross-examine.
4. To mark or emboss with a gridiron.
n.
1. A cooking surface of parallel metal bars; a gridiron.
2. Food cooked by broiling or grilling.
3. An informal restaurant or a room in a restaurant where grilled foods are served. Also called grillroom.
4. A series of marks grilled or embossed on a surface.
5. Variant of grille.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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