Meaning & use
Distill
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To purify a liquid or extract its essential components by heating it into vapor and then condensing it, or more broadly, to extract the essential meaning from something.
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The whisky is distilled three times before it is aged in oak barrels.
The consultant distilled the lengthy report into three key recommendations.
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Beyond its chemical sense, "distill" is commonly used figuratively to describe reducing complex ideas to their most essential form.
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