distill
/dɪˈstɪl/
verb
- To heat a liquid until it becomes a gas and then cool it so that it becomes a liquid again, in order to purify it or separate it into parts. (Alternate spelling of 'distil'.)
- The factory uses large copper vats to distill whiskey from fermented grain.
- You can distill seawater to make it drinkable.
- They distill the crude oil into gasoline, diesel, and other products.
- To extract or obtain the essential meaning or most important part of something.
- His speech managed to distill the team's goals into a single inspiring sentence.
- It's hard to distill such a long novel into a short summary.
- The documentary tries to distill the history of the war into 90 minutes.