boil away

phrase

: to boil until all (liquid) is gone
Cook the mixture until the liquid has boiled away.

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At some point, likely within the next two billion years, those temperatures will rise so high that our oceans will boil away; shortly after that, it’s expected that life on our planet will go completely extinct. — Big Think, 20 Feb. 2026 The whole thing will boil away. — Zuzana Říhová, Literary Hub, 26 Sep. 2025 First, in a billion years or so, the Sun will get brighter and boil away the oceans. — Stephen Dikerby, The Conversation, 15 Sep. 2025 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. — 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 2 Oct. 2026.

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