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grill
(grĭl)tr.v. grilled, grill·ing, grills
1. To broil on a gridiron.
2. To torture or afflict as if by broiling.
3. Informal To question relentlessly; cross-examine.
4. To mark or emboss with a gridiron.
n.
1. A cooking surface of parallel metal bars; a gridiron.
2. Food cooked by broiling or grilling.
3. An informal restaurant or a room in a restaurant where grilled foods are served. Also called grillroom.
4. A series of marks grilled or embossed on a surface.
5. Variant of grille.
[French griller, from gril, gridiron, from Old French greille, from Latin crātīcula; see griddle.]
grill′er n.
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grilling
(ˈɡrɪlɪŋ)n
informal an insistent or prolonged interrogation
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| Noun | 1. |  grilling - cooking by direct exposure to radiant heat (as over a fire or under a grill)cookery, cooking, preparation - the act of preparing something (as food) by the application of heat; "cooking can be a great art"; "people are needed who have experience in cookery"; "he left the preparation of meals to his wife" |
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grilling
[ˈgrɪlɪŋ] N (fig) → interrogatorio m intensoto give sb a grilling → interrogar a algn intensamente
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grilling
n
(Cook) → Grillen nt
(= interrogation) → strenges Verhör; to give somebody a grilling → jdn in die Zange nehmen (inf); to give somebody a grilling about something → jdn über etw (acc) → ausquetschen (inf) → or ins Verhör nehmen
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