distil

A verb used to indicate the process of purifying or extracting the essential elements of something, often through heating and cooling, or metaphorically to extract the most important aspects.

• 🇩🇪Verb, das den Prozess der Reinigung oder Extraktion der wesentlichen Elemente von etwas bezeichnet, oft durch Erhitzen und Abkühlen, oder im übertragenen Sinne das Herausziehen der wichtigsten Aspekte.

1. Purify liquid B2 formal scientific

   To heat a liquid until it becomes a gas and then cool it so that it becomes liquid again, in order to purify it or separate it from other substances.

   • The laboratory distils water to remove impurities.
   • Whisky is distilled from fermented grain mash.
   • They distilled the seawater to make it drinkable.

   🇩🇪Destillieren

   Synonyme: clarifyfilterpurifyrectifyrefine

   Antonyme: adulteratecontaminatepollute

2. Extract essence C1 formal

   To get the most important ideas or essence from a larger amount of information.

   • The author distilled years of research into a single book.
   • She distilled the complex theory into a simple explanation.
   • The report distils the key findings from the survey.

   🇩🇪Das Wesentliche herausarbeiten

   Synonyme: condensederiveextractglean

• distilled past participle
• distilled past simple
• distilling present participle
• distills third person singular
• distils third person singular