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Distill   /dɪstˈɪl/   Listen
Distill

verb
(past & past part. distilled; pres. part. distilling)  (Written also distil)
1.
Remove impurities from, increase the concentration of, and separate through the process of distillation.  Synonyms: make pure, purify, sublimate.
2.
Undergo the process of distillation.  Synonym: distil.
3.
Extract by the process of distillation.  Synonyms: distil, extract.
4.
Undergo condensation; change from a gaseous to a liquid state and fall in drops.  Synonyms: condense, distil.  "The acid distills at a specific temperature"
5.
Give off (a liquid).  Synonym: distil.



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"Distill" Quotes from Famous Books



... when she finds it within the circle of the child's interests. She is willing, nay eager, to ransack the universe if only she may come upon elements of nutrition for her pupils. From every flower that blooms she gathers honey that she may distill it into the life of the child. She does not coddle the child; she ...
— The Vitalized School • Francis B. Pearson

... [Sidenote: Armed at poynt] Appeares before them, and with sollemne march Goes slow and stately: By them thrice he walkt, [Sidenote: stately by them; thrice] By their opprest and feare-surprized eyes, Within his Truncheons length; whilst they bestil'd [Sidenote: they distill'd[11]] Almost to Ielly with the Act of feare,[12] Stand dumbe and speake not to him. This to me In dreadfull[13] secrecie impart they did, And I with them the third Night kept the Watch, Whereas[14] they had deliuer'd both ...
— The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark - A Study with the Text of the Folio of 1623 • George MacDonald

... distill'd from Copper and Silver, which both did wholly loose their Metalline forms, and were melted into brittle lumps, with colours quite differing from their own; both apt to imbibe the moisture of the ...
— Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society - Vol 1 - 1666 • Various



Words linked to "Distill" :   refine, exudate, exude, distillment, amend, distillery, rectify, change, create, flux, ooze out, distil, purge, make, chemistry, better, improve, meliorate, transude, ooze, chemical science, liquify, liquefy, moonshine, ameliorate



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