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if a situation or feeling boils over, people cannot control their anger and start to fight or argue
Racial tensions in the area were boiling over.
The dispute finally boiled over into a series of violent protests.
if a liquid boils over, it rises so much when it boils that it flows over the top of the container that it is in
There was a hissing sound as the soup boiled over.