grilling

grilling
    n 1: cooking by direct exposure to radiant heat (as over a fire
         or under a grill) [syn: {broil}, {broiling}, {grilling}]
    

Grill \Grill\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Grilled}; p. pr. & vb. n.
   {Grilling}.] [F. griller, fr. gril gridiron, OF. gra["i]l, L.
   craticulum for craticula fine hurdlework, a small gridiron,
   dim. of crates hurdle. See {Grate}, n.]
   [1913 Webster]
   1. To broil on a grill or gridiron.
      [1913 Webster]

            Boiling of men in caldrons, grilling them on
            gridirons.                            --Marvell.

   2. To torment, as if by broiling. --Dickens.
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   3. To stamp or mark with a grill.
      [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
    

69 Moby Thesaurus words for "grilling":
      ardent, baking, barbecuing, basting, blistering, boiling, braising,
      brewing, broil, broiling, burning, burning hot, canicular,
      catering, cookery, cooking, cross-examination, cross-interrogation,
      cross-questioning, cuisine, culinary science, direct examination,
      domestic science, ebullient, feverish, flushed, frying, heated,
      home economics, hot, hot as fire, hot as hell, inquisition,
      interrogation, like a furnace, like an oven, nutrition, overheated,
      overwarm, pan-broiling, parching, piping hot, poaching,
      police interrogation, red-hot, redirect examination, roasting,
      sauteing, scalding, scorching, searing, seething, shirring,
      simmering, sizzling hot, smoking hot, steeping, stewing, sudorific,
      sweating, sweaty, sweltering, sweltry, the grill, third degree,
      third-degree, toasting, torrid, white-hot