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Grammar : Adj, verb
Spell : boil
Phonetic Transcription : bɔɪl



Definition of boiled 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 pointed : adj penetrating, biting
  • As in refined : adj cleaned of impurities
  • As in short : adj abridged
  • As in succinct : adj brief, to the point
  • As in summary : adj concise, to the point
  • As in tame : adj dull, uninteresting
  • As in terse : adj brief, short
  • As in brief : adj short, compressed
  • As in compact : adj short, brief
  • As in concentrated : adj condensed, reduced
  • As in concise : adj short, to the point
  • 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
Example sentences :
  • This soup strained, and boiled down to one half, becomes consommé.
  • Extract from : « Culture and Cooking » by Catherine Owen
  • Call it liberty, if you want to, but it's all boiled down now to Addington.
  • Extract from : « The Prisoner » by Alice Brown
  • It tasted like Hades boiled down, and made me gasp for breath.
  • Extract from : « The Strange Adventure Of James Shervinton » by Louis Becke
  • Mayne's last communique might have been boiled down to, "But I need it!"
  • Extract from : « A Transmutation of Muddles » by Horace Brown Fyfe
  • The sun just boiled down on that roof and we were nearly melted.
  • Extract from : « Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1907 to 1908 » by Lucy Maud Montgomery
  • Boiled down into the self-esteem of a single race, I don't admire them any more.
  • Extract from : « Instinct » by George Oliver Smith
  • This she boiled down, and then poured the liquid into bamboo cases.
  • Extract from : « Mark Seaworth » by William H.G. Kingston
  • All the gospel in the world can be boiled down into a single precept.
  • Extract from : « The Complete Essays of C. D. Warner » by Charles Dudley Warner
  • This, as you see, will only make a small quantity when boiled down.
  • Extract from : « Housekeeping in Old Virginia » by Marion Cabell Tyree
  • Not quite as crude as that, of course, but that's what it boiled down to, let me tell you!
  • Extract from : « Martyr » by Alan Edward Nourse

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