Grilled

Part of speech: verb

Pronunciation: /ɡɹɪld/

Definitions

1. The process of preparing food involves subjecting it to direct heat, leading to a distinctive charred flavor and texture on the surface, while also describing the act of rigorously interrogating someone as if they were being heated up by the same method
2. This culinary technique consists of cooking food over an open flame or heat source, producing a crispy exterior and deepened taste, and it also refers to intensely questioning an individual on a subject matter
3. Cooked by applying direct heat from below, often with marks from the grill surface ; subjected to thorough and persistent questioning or interrogation

Etymology: "Grilled" is simply the past tense and past participle of "grill," so its story belongs to the verb it modifies. The verb "grill" came into English from French "grille," a word for a grating or iron framework, and the cooking sense grew out of that object: food was laid across the bars of a grate and cooked over the flame beneath it. The "-ed" ending is the ordinary English marker that turns the verb into a past form, so "grilled" describes food that has already been cooked this way.

Synonyms: cooked, charred

Antonyms: raw