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fry to cook food in a shallow pan of hot oil: Fry the onion and garlic for five minutes. ♦ There was a smell of bacon frying in the kitchen. ♦ fried chicken/fish/rice bake to cook food in an oven without any extra fat or liquid: to bake bread/cookies ♦ We baked him a cake for his birthday. ♦ baked potatoes roast to cook large pieces of meat in an oven or over a fire; to cook vegetables in oil or fat in an oven: The turkey is roasting in the oven. ♦ You should boil the potatoes for a little while before you roast them. grill to cook meat or fish on metal bars over a fire: to grill steak/chicken/burgers/fish on the barbecue ♦ grilled salmon

broil to cook food under or over direct heat: to broil salmon/a steak ♦ We ate broiled chicken with vegetables.

broil • er / ' broibr / noun [ count ]

a part of an oven that cooks food with heat from above Roast the peppers under the broiler.

broke 1

form of break 1

broke 2 / brouk / adjective

( informal )

having no money

I can't go out tonight. I'm totally broke.

bro•ken 1

form of break 1

bro .ken 2Ф / Ъгоикэп/ adjective

in pieces or not working a broken window

"What's the time?" "I don't know — my watch is broken." The TV is broken. The verb is break .

bronze / branz / noun [ noncount ]

a dark red-brown metal a bronze medal

brook / bruk / noun [ count ]

( geography ) a very small river

broom / brum / noun [count]

a brush with a long handle that you use for cleaning the floor

broth / bro9 / noun [ noncount ] a thin soup chicken broth

broth .er Ф / Ъглбэг/ noun [ count ]

a man or boy who has the same parents as you My younger brother is named Mark. Gavin and Nick are brothers. Do you have any brothers and sisters ?

broth • er-in-law / ' Ьгл6эг in lo /

[ count ] ( plural broth • ers-in-law )

1 the brother of your wife or husband 2 the husband of your sister —Look at sister-in-law . broth • er • ly / ' Ьгл6эгН / adjective

showing feelings of kindness and love, like a brother would show

brotherly love

brought

form of bring

brow / brau / noun [ count ] ( formal )

the part of your face above your eyes —SYNONYM forehead

brown О / braun / adjective brown er , brown • est )

having the color of soil or wood She has dark hair and brown eyes.

brownnoun [ count, noncount ] You look good in brown.

browse / brauz / verb ( brows • es , brows • ing , browsed )

1 to spend time looking through a store or book without a clear idea of what you are looking for

browsed through the catalog but didn't see anything I wanted to buy.

( computers ) to look for and read information on a computer

to browse the Internet

brows • er / ' Ьгошэг / noun [ count ]

( computers ) a program that lets you look at pages on the Internet a Web browser

bruise / bruz / noun [ count ]

a dark mark on your skin that comes after something hits it

bruise verb ( bruis • es , bruis • ing , bruised )

He fell and bruised his leg.

brunch / bmntj/ noun [ count, noncount ] ( plural brunch • es )

a late morning meal that you eat instead of breakfast and lunch

to go out for brunch

bru • nette / |bru ' net / noun [ count ]

a woman with dark brown hair

brunt / bmnt / noun

bear, take, etc. the brunt of something