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Antonyms for boil down
Grammar : Verb |
Spell : boil |
Phonetic Transcription : bɔɪl |
- add
- allow
- amplify
- be vague
- blow up
- break down
- complicate
- confuse
- destroy
- detail
- develop
- dirty
- disarrange
- disbelieve
- disorder
- disorganize
- disperse
- disregard
- distribute
- disturb
- divide
- elongate
- enlarge
- expand
- extend
- fill
- free
- grow
- ignore
- increase
- indulge
- keep
- leave
- lengthen
- let go
- let grow
- loose
- loosen
- lose
- make difficult
- misunderstand
- mix up
- mystify
- not believe
- obscure
- open
- pollute
- pour
- prolong
- raise
- reject
- release
- ruin
- scatter
- separate
- spoil
- strengthen
- stretch
- thin
- uncompress
- uncondense
- untie
- unwrinkle
- worsen
Definition of boil down
Origin :- early 13c., from Old French bolir "boil, bubble up, ferment, gush" (12c., Modern French bouillir), from Latin bullire "to bubble, seethe," from PIE base *beu- "to swell" (see bull (n.2)). The native word is seethe. Figurative sense of "to agitate the feelings" is from 1640s.
- I am impatient, and my blood boyls high. [Thomas Otway, "Alcibiades," 1675]
- Related: Boiled; boiling. Boiling point is recorded from 1773.
- As in abbreviate : verb shorten
- As in shorten : verb diminish, decrease
- As in simplify : verb make easy, intelligible
- As in summarize : verb give a rundown
- As in trim : verb cut shorter
- As in compress : verb compact, condense
- As in condense : verb abridge
- As in curtail : verb cut short; abridge
- As in deduce : verb figure out, understand
- As in digest : verb make shorter; abridge
- As in distill : verb make pure; draw out something
- As in edit : verb rewrite, refine
- Mix and boil down to one quart; when cool give it as a drench.
- Extract from : « One Thousand Secrets of Wise and Rich Men Revealed » by C. A. Bogardus
- When the lime is slaked, add six gallons of water, and boil down to two gallons.
- Extract from : « Your Plants » by James Sheehan
- Addison and I went over one afternoon to see them "boil down."
- Extract from : « A Busy Year at the Old Squire's » by Charles Asbury Stephens
- In a stew, on the contrary, you boil down this soup till it permeates the fibre which long exposure to heat has softened.
- Extract from : « The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 86, December, 1864 » by Various
- Put the bones back into the broth and let this boil down to three quarters of a pint.
- Extract from : « My Pet Recipes, Tried and True » by Various
- My idea is that they boil down a dictionary, and take two table-spoonsful each night before going to bed.
- Extract from : « The Angel and the Author - and Others » by Jerome K. Jerome
- As I was sitting on the ground by them next morning, lamenting I had nothing to boil down their blubber in, an idea struck me.
- Extract from : « A Chapter of Adventures » by G. A. Henty
- Take the apples out, core them and fill with a fruit jelly, if liked, boil down the syrup and pour over the fruit.
- Extract from : « The Golden Age Cook Book » by Henrietta Latham Dwight
- They taught our New England ancestors how to tap the trees and boil down the sirup and how to "sugar off."
- Extract from : « The Library of Work and Play: Outdoor Work » by Mary Rogers Miller
- Pick out the meat, boil down the shell, use the liquor for making the sauce with minced lobster, and buttered rolled flour.
- Extract from : « Margaret Brown's French Cookery Book » by Margaret Brown
Synonyms for boil down
- abbreviate
- abridge
- abstract
- adapt
- add up
- alter
- amplify
- analyze
- annotate
- arrange
- assemble
- assign
- assume
- barber
- be afraid
- bind
- blue pencil
- blue-pencil
- bob
- boil down
- break down
- break it down
- brew
- butcher
- censor
- chasten
- check
- choose
- chop
- cipher
- clarify
- classify
- clean it up
- clean up
- clear up
- clip
- coagulate
- codify
- cogitate
- collect
- compact
- compile
- compose
- compress
- conceive
- concentrate
- conclude
- condense
- consider
- consolidate
- constrict
- contract
- cook
- correct
- cram
- cramp
- crop
- crowd
- crush
- curtail
- cut
- cut back
- cut down
- cut off
- cut out
- cut the frills
- cut to bone
- cut to the bone
- decipher
- decoct
- decrease
- deduct
- deem
- dehydrate
- delete
- densen
- densify
- derive
- digest
- diminish
- discard
- disentangle
- disinvolve
- dock
- doctor
- downsize
- draft
- draw
- draw a picture
- dribble
- drip
- drop
- edit
- elide
- elucidate
- emend
- encapsulate
- epitomize
- evaporate
- even up
- excerpt
- excise
- explain
- express
- extract
- facilitate
- fancy
- feature
- ferment
- figure
- fine-tune
- finish
- fly speck
- force into space
- gather
- get down to basics
- get to meat
- get to the meat
- give main points
- glean
- go over
- halt
- have a hunch
- hit the high spots
- imagine
- infer
- infuse
- interpret
- inventory
- judge
- lay out
- lessen
- let daylight in
- let sunlight in
- lop
- make
- make a long story short
- make brief
- make clear
- make out
- make perfectly clear
- make plain
- make up
- massage
- methodize
- minify
- minimize
- mow
- narrow
- nutshell
- order
- outline
- pack
- pare
- pare down
- plane
- polish
- precipitate
- précis
- prepare
- prescribe
- press
- press out
- press together
- presume
- presuppose
- proofread
- prune
- publish
- purify
- put in a nutshell
- put in nutshell
- put one straight
- put together
- ram
- rarefy
- ratiocinate
- read into
- rearrange
- reason
- recalibrate
- recap
- recapitulate
- rectify
- redact
- reduce
- refine
- regard
- regulate
- rehash
- rephrase
- report
- restrict
- retrench
- retrograde
- review
- revise
- roll back
- run down
- run through
- scrub
- select
- set up
- shave
- shear
- shorten
- shrink
- shrivel
- skim
- slash
- slice off
- snip
- solidify
- spell out
- squash
- squeeze
- squeeze out
- steam
- streamline
- strike out
- stuff
- style
- sublimate
- sum
- sum up
- summarize
- summate
- surmise
- survey
- syncopate
- synopsize
- systematize
- tabulate
- take out
- take to mean
- telescope
- thicken
- tidy
- tighten
- trickle
- trim
- truncate
- unscramble
- vaporize
- volatilize
- wedge
- whittle down
- wrap
- write over
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