Definition of "overboiling" [overboiling]

• Present participle of overboil. (verb)

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• "He decried the “overboiling patriotism” guiding the debate."
• "But, as for that overboiling valour, which I have heard many of ours talk of, though I seldom observed that it influenced them in the actual affair — — that exuberant zeal, which courts Danger as a bride, — truly my courage was of a complexion much less ecstatical."
• "The main problem, as with all members of the brassica family, is overboiling."