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Word: Distil
Speech Type: Verb
Etymology:
late Middle English: from Latin distillare, variant of destillare, from de- ‘down, away’ + stillare (from stilla ‘a drop’)
Audio Pronunciation:
Phonetic Spelling:
dɪˈstɪl
Dialects: British English
Definition:
purify (a liquid) by heating it so that it vaporizes, then cooling and condensing the vapour and collecting the resulting liquid
Short Definition:purify liquid by heating and condensing
Examples:- they managed to distil a small quantity of water
Definition:
extract the essential meaning or most important aspects of
Short Definition:extract essential meaning of
Examples:- my travel notes were distilled into a book
Variant Forms:
- distill
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