distil

• Verbe utilisé pour désigner le processus de purification ou d'extraction des éléments essentiels d'une substance, souvent par chauffage et refroidissement, ou au sens figuré pour en tirer les aspects les plus importants.

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.

1. Purify liquidB2formalscientific

   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.

   distiller

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

   Synonymesclarifyfilterpurifyrectifyrefine

   Antonymesadulteratecontaminatepollute

2. Extract essenceC1formal

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

   extraire l'essentiel

   • 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.

   Synonymescondensederiveextractglean