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Grilling   /grˈɪlɪŋ/   Listen
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Grill  v. t.  (past & past part. grilled; pres. part. grilling)  
1.
To broil on a grill or gridiron. "Boiling of men in caldrons, grilling them on gridirons."
2.
To torment, as if by broiling.
3.
To stamp or mark with a grill.


Grill  v. i.  To undergo the process of being grilled, or broiled; to broil. "He had grilled in the heat, sweated in the rains."





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"Grilling" Quotes from Famous Books



... had him up, and we were pressing on again, in midnight darkness once we had passed beyond the light of our grilling fires. No word was spoken; under the impatient urging of the Indian there was little breath to spare for speech. But when Richard's afterthought had set its fangs in him, he called a halt ...
— The Master of Appleby • Francis Lynde
... Pere's, which I was beginning to think I'd looked my last upon. Mac had not only the knowledge of personal failure—bitter enough, itself, to a man of his temperament—to gnaw at him, but the prospect of another grilling from the powers in gold braid. It would have been strange if he ...
— Raw Gold - A Novel • Bertrand W. Sinclair
... himself Another Answer, and in that capacity proceeded now to reply as best he might to a merciless and rapid fire of questions. She would have made an excellent cross-examiner for the prosecution; Mr. Heatherbloom did not seem to enjoy the grilling. A number of queries he answered frankly; others he evaded. He seemed—ominous circumstance!—especially secretive regarding certain details of his past. He did not care to say where he was born, or who his parents were. What had ...
— A Man and His Money • Frederic Stewart Isham
... answered, "which I am coming back in an hour to cook for myself. And as you will be without any servant," he continued, while my mother stood staring at him incapable of utterance, "you had better let me cook some for you at the same time. I am an expert at grilling chops." ...
— Paul Kelver • Jerome Klapka, AKA Jerome K. Jerome
... country during the years they had known him. Not one of them but would have been astonished beyond words had he known of Abe's adventure the afternoon before they left Rubio City, and how, through every day of the hard, grilling labor with the expedition, the image of the girl he had watched through his ...
— The Winning of Barbara Worth • Harold B Wright


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