boil away
idiom
: to boil until all (liquid) is gone
Cook the mixture until the liquid has boiled away.
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SpaceX The ultra-cold propellants, which continually boil away, must first be transferred, one flight at a time, to a storage vehicle of some sort.
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William Harwood, CBS News, 9 Jan. 2024
The Sun is slowly heating up and in half a billion years will boil away Earth’s oceans.
—Michael Wysession, Fortune, 27 July 2023
That means that if a quasar existed even at the edge of the solar system, its light output would boil away all of our planet’s oceans in seconds.
—Robert Lea, Popular Mechanics, 13 June 2023
Over the unimaginable course of a googol years (1 followed by 100 zeros), black holes will swallow every last bit of matter, then boil away in a process known as Hawking radiation, leaving behind a sea of massless photons.
—Cody Cottier, Discover Magazine, 14 Mar. 2023
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William Harwood, CBS News, 9 Jan. 2024
The Sun is slowly heating up and in half a billion years will boil away Earth’s oceans.
—Michael Wysession, Fortune, 27 July 2023
That means that if a quasar existed even at the edge of the solar system, its light output would boil away all of our planet’s oceans in seconds.
—Robert Lea, Popular Mechanics, 13 June 2023
Over the unimaginable course of a googol years (1 followed by 100 zeros), black holes will swallow every last bit of matter, then boil away in a process known as Hawking radiation, leaving behind a sea of massless photons.
—Cody Cottier, Discover Magazine, 14 Mar. 2023
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“Boil away.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/boil%20away. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.
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