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   Dis·till

   /dəˈstil/

   

   verb

   • 1. purify (a liquid) by vaporizing it, then condensing it by cooling the vapor, and collecting the resulting liquid: "they managed to distill a small quantity of water" Similar purifyrefinefiltertreatprocessvaporize/evaporate and condensesublimesublimaterare:fractionate
   • ▪ make (something, especially liquor or an essence) by distilling: "whiskey is distilled from a mash of grains" Similar brewfermentmake
   • ▪ extract the essence of (something) by heating it with a solvent: "distill the leaves of some agrimony" Similar extractpress outsqueeze outexpressdraw outtake out
   • ▪ remove (a volatile constituent) of a mixture by using heat: "coal tar is made by distilling out the volatile products in coal" Similar boil downreduceconcentratethickencompresscondensepurifyrefineseparaterectify
   • ▪ emanate as a vapor or in minute drops: literary "she drew back from the dank breath that distilled out of the earth" Similar emanateexudedripleaktrickledribbleflow
   • 2. extract the essential meaning or most important aspects of: "my travel notes were distilled into a book"

   Word Origin late Middle English: from Latin distillare, variant of destillare, from de- ‘down, away’ + stillare (from stilla ‘a drop’).

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   • 1. distillatory adjective

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   What is the meaning of distil?

   • (Chemistry) (sometimes foll by: out or off) to purify, separate, or concentrate, or be purified, separated, or concentrated by distillation 3. (Brewing) to obtain or be obtained by distillation: to distil whisky. 4. (Chemistry) to obtain or be obtained by distillation: to distil whisky.

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   What is the process of distilling?

   • The original meaning of distill comes from the process of making alcohol, known as distilling, in which all the impurities of a substance are vaporized and its pure, high-alcohol condensation collected. Distill eventually came to mean any process in which the essence of something is revealed.

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   1. : to let fall, exude, or precipitate (see precipitate entry 1 sense 3b) in drops or in a wet mist. some caves are dry, others distill water from invisible rifts Norman Douglas. 2. a. : to purify or transform (a liquid) by successive evaporation and condensation : to subject to or transform by distillation. distill molasses into rum. b.

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   Check pronunciation: distill. Definition of distill verb in Oxford Advanced American Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.

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   DISTIL meaning: 1. to make a liquid stronger or purer by heating it until it changes to a gas and then cooling it…. Learn more.

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   c1400–. intransitive. To become vaporized and then condensed into liquid; to undergo distillation; to drop, pass, or condense from the still. to distil over: to pass over in the form of vapour which again condenses into a liquid. c1400.

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    Definitions of distil. verb. undergo condensation; change from a gaseous to a liquid state and fall in drops. synonyms: condense, distill. condense. develop due to condensation. condense.