boil down

• Verbe à particule signifiant se résumer à l'essentiel ou réduire quelque chose à ses éléments principaux, ou encore condenser un contenu en ses points clés.

A phrasal verb used to indicate reducing something to its essential elements or summarizing the main points.

indénombrable · intransitif · phrasal, inséparable

1. Reduce by boilingformal

   To reduce the volume of a liquid by heating it so that some of it evaporates.

   Faire réduire

   • Boil down the sauce until it thickens.
   • The recipe says to boil down the stock for 20 minutes.
   • She boiled down the soup to concentrate the flavors.

   Synonymesconcentratecondensereducethicken

2. Summarize or simplifyinformal

   To reduce something to its most essential or basic elements.

   se résumer à

   • The whole problem boils down to a lack of communication.
   • You can boil down his speech to three main points.
   • It all boils down to whether you trust him or not.

   Synonymesabridgecondenseencapsulateprecisreducesimplify

   Antonymesamplifydetailelaborateexpandflesh out

Verbe de baseboil