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boil up

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boil up
vb
(intr, adverb) Austral and NZ to make tea
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? boil up
vi
(lit) → aufkochen
(fig) he could feel the anger boiling up in him → er fühlte, wie die Wut in ihm aufstieg


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That is the only way to get a kettle to boil up the river.
Three Men In A Boat (To Say Nothing Of The Dog) by Jerome, Jerome K. View in context
Sometimes the whole tract swung to one side, like the tail of a live serpent; sometimes, for a glimpse, it would all disappear and then boil up again.
Kidnapped by Stevenson, Robert Louis View in context
And there stood Cadmus, Phoenix, and Cilix, gazing at this sad spectacle, through their tears, until they could no longer distinguish the bull's snowy head from the white-capped billows that seemed to boil up out of the sea's depths around him.
Tanglewood Tales by Hawthorne, Nathaniel View in context
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