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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
grill
    n 1: a restaurant where food is cooked on a grill [syn:
         grillroom, grill]
    2: a framework of metal bars used as a partition or a grate; "he
       cooked hamburgers on the grill" [syn: grill, grille,
       grillwork]
    v 1: cook over a grill; "grill the sausages"
    2: examine thoroughly; "the student was grilled for two hours on
       the subject of phonology"

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Grill \Grill\, n. [F. gril. See Grill, v. t.]
   1. A gridiron.
      [1913 Webster]

            [They] make grills of [wood] to broil their meat.
                                                  --Cotton.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. That which is broiled on a gridiron, as meat, fish, etc.
      [1913 Webster]

   3. A figure of crossed bars with interstices, such as those
      sometimes impressed upon postage stamps.
      [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

   4. A grillroom.
      [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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.
      [1913 Webster]

   3. To stamp or mark with a grill.
      [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

4. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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.
                                                  --Kipling.
   [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

Thesaurus Results for Grill:

1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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