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Antonyms for boiled down
Grammar : Adj, verb |
Spell : boil |
Phonetic Transcription : bɔɪl |
- able
- add
- adequate
- allow
- amplify
- be vague
- benevolent
- big
- blow up
- blunt
- break down
- bright
- calming
- complicate
- confuse
- corrupt
- courteous
- destroy
- detail
- develop
- diffuse
- diluted
- dirtied
- dirty
- disarrange
- disbelieve
- disorder
- disorganize
- disperse
- disregard
- distribute
- disturb
- divide
- dull
- elongate
- enduring
- enlarge
- enormous
- enough
- exciting
- expand
- expansive
- extend
- fill
- free
- gentle
- grow
- high
- huge
- ignore
- immense
- important
- incomplete
- increase
- indefinite
- indulge
- interesting
- keep
- kind
- large
- lasting
- leave
- lengthen
- lengthy
- let go
- let grow
- long
- long-lived
- long-winded
- loose
- loosen
- lose
- make difficult
- mild
- misunderstand
- mix up
- mystify
- nice
- not believe
- obscure
- open
- polite
- pollute
- polluted
- pour
- prolix
- prolong
- raise
- redundant
- reject
- release
- repetitive
- ruin
- scatter
- separate
- slack
- soothing
- spoil
- strengthen
- stretch
- strong
- stupid
- sufficient
- tall
- thick
- thin
- unabridged
- uncivilized
- uncompress
- uncondense
- uncondensed
- uncultured
- unfinished
- unmanageable
- unrefined
- unsophisticated
- untamed
- untie
- unwrinkle
- verbose
- violent
- weak
- wild
- wordy
- worsen
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
- 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
Synonyms for boiled down
- abbreviate
- abbreviated
- abridge
- abridged
- abrupt
- abstract
- accurate
- acid
- acute
- adapt
- add up
- aerated
- alter
- amplify
- analyze
- annotate
- aphoristic
- arbitrary
- arrange
- assemble
- assign
- assume
- barbed
- barber
- bare
- be afraid
- bind
- bland
- bloodless
- blue pencil
- blue-pencil
- bluff
- blunt
- bob
- boil down
- boiled down
- boring
- break down
- break it down
- breviloquent
- brew
- brief
- brusque
- butcher
- calling a spade a spade
- censor
- chasten
- check
- choose
- chop
- cipher
- clarified
- clarify
- classify
- clean
- clean it up
- clean up
- cleansed
- clear up
- clear-cut
- clip
- clipped
- close
- coagulate
- codify
- cogitate
- collect
- compact
- compacted
- compendiary
- compendious
- compile
- complete
- compose
- compress
- compressed
- conceive
- concentrate
- concise
- conclude
- condense
- condensed
- consider
- consolidate
- constrict
- contract
- conventional
- cook
- correct
- cram
- cramp
- crashed
- crisp
- crop
- crowd
- crush
- cryptic
- cursory
- curt
- curtail
- curtailed
- curtate
- cut
- cut back
- cut down
- cut off
- cut out
- cut short
- cut the frills
- cut to bone
- cut to the bone
- cutting
- decipher
- decoct
- decrease
- decreased
- decurtate
- deduct
- deem
- dehydrate
- delete
- densen
- densify
- derive
- digest
- diluted
- diminish
- diminished
- discard
- disentangle
- disinvolve
- distilled
- dock
- doctor
- downsize
- draft
- drained
- draw
- draw a picture
- dribble
- drip
- drop
- edit
- elide
- elliptical
- elucidate
- emend
- encapsulate
- entire
- epigrammatic
- epitomize
- evaporate
- evaporated
- even up
- exact
- excerpt
- excise
- explain
- express
- expurgated
- extract
- facilitate
- fancy
- feature
- feeble
- ferment
- figure
- filtered
- fine-tune
- finish
- fixed
- flat
- fleeting
- fly speck
- force into space
- full-bodied
- gather
- get down to basics
- get to meat
- get to the meat
- give main points
- glean
- gnomic
- go over
- halfhearted
- halt
- hasty
- have a hunch
- hit the high spots
- humdrum
- imagine
- in a nutshell
- in few words
- incisive
- infer
- infuse
- insinuating
- insipid
- interpret
- inventory
- judge
- keen
- laconic
- laid on the line
- lay out
- lean
- legit
- lessen
- lessened
- let daylight in
- let sunlight in
- lifeless
- limited
- limp
- little
- lop
- lusty
- make
- make a long story short
- make brief
- make clear
- make out
- make perfectly clear
- make plain
- make up
- marrowy
- massage
- meaty
- methodize
- mild
- minify
- minimize
- momentary
- monotonous
- mow
- narrow
- neat
- not protracted
- nutshell
- on the button
- on the nose
- order
- outline
- pack
- pare
- pare down
- perfunctory
- pertinent
- pithy
- plane
- pointed
- polish
- potent
- precipitate
- précis
- precise
- pregnant
- prepare
- prescribe
- press
- press out
- press together
- presume
- presuppose
- processed
- proofread
- prosaic
- prune
- publish
- pure
- purified
- purify
- put in a nutshell
- put in nutshell
- put one straight
- put together
- ram
- rarefied
- rarefy
- ratiocinate
- read into
- rearrange
- reason
- recalibrate
- recap
- recapitulate
- recapped
- rectify
- redact
- reduce
- refine
- regard
- regulate
- rehash
- rehashed
- rephrase
- report
- restrict
- retrench
- retrograde
- review
- revise
- rich
- right to it
- right-on
- robust
- roll back
- routine
- run down
- run through
- run-down
- run-through
- sarcastic
- scrub
- select
- sententious
- set up
- sharp
- shave
- shear
- short
- short and sweet
- short-and-sweet
- short-lived
- short-term
- shorten
- shortened
- shrink
- shrivel
- skim
- skimpy
- slash
- slice off
- small
- snappy
- snip
- snippy
- solidify
- spell out
- spiritless
- squash
- squeeze
- squeeze out
- steam
- straight
- strained
- streamline
- strike out
- strong
- stuff
- stuffed
- style
- sublimate
- succinct
- sum
- sum up
- summarize
- summarized
- summary
- summate
- surly
- surmise
- survey
- syncopate
- synopsize
- synoptic
- systematize
- tabulate
- take out
- take to mean
- tart
- taut
- tedious
- telescope
- telescoped
- telling
- terse
- thick
- thicken
- thickened
- tidy
- tighten
- to the point
- total
- trenchant
- trickle
- trim
- truncate
- unadulterated
- undersized
- undiffused
- undiluted
- undivided
- unexciting
- uninspiring
- unmingled
- unmixed
- unprolonged
- unscramble
- unsustained
- vapid
- vaporize
- volatilize
- washed
- weak
- wearisome
- wedge
- white-bread
- whittle down
- whole
- without punch
- wrap
- write over
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