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To distill something said or written is to reduce it but keep the most important part: She distilled the report into a paragraph.
to make a liquid stronger or purer by heating it until it changes to a gas and then cooling it so that it changes back into a liquid: Some strong alcoholic drinks such as whiskey are made by distilling. Spirits & distilling. absinthe. amaretto. applejack. benedictine. bitter. cordial. creme. crème de menthe. curaçao. distillation. liqueur.
a. : to purify or transform (a liquid) by successive evaporation and condensation : to subject to or transform by distillation. distill molasses into rum. b. : to obtain by or as if by distillation. distill whiskey. able to distill humor from personal loss. c. : to extract the essence of : concentrate.
Distilled definition: obtained or produced by distillation.. See examples of DISTILLED used in a sentence.
DISTILLED definition: produced by distillation | Meaning, pronunciation, translations and examples
distill. If a liquid such as whiskey or water is distilled, it is heated until it changes into steam or vapor and then cooled until it becomes liquid again. This is usually done in order to make it pure. The whiskey had been distilled in 1926 and sat quietly maturing until 1987.
verb (used with object) , dis·tilled, dis·til·ling. to subject to a process of vaporization and subsequent condensation, as for purification or concentration. to extract the volatile components of by distillation; transform by distillation.
