- 1grill something to cook food over a fire, especially outdoors grilled meat and shrimp
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- 2grill somebody (about something) to ask someone a lot of questions about their ideas, actions, etc., often in an unpleasant way They grilled her about where she had been all night. He was grilled by detectives for several hours. see grilling
grill
verbNAmE//ɡrɪl//
Verb Forms present simple I / you / we / they grill he / she / it grills
past simple grilled
-ing form grilling
Check pronunciation: grill