(British distil)
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verb
[with object] 1purify (a liquid) by vaporizing it, then condensing it by cooling the vapor, and collecting the resulting liquid:they managed to distill a small quantity of water (as adjective distilled)dip the slide in distilled water make (something, especially liquor or an essence) in this way:whiskey is distilled from a mash of grains (as noun distilling)the distilling industry extract the essence of (something) by heating it with a solvent. remove (a volatile constituent) of a mixture by using heat:coal tar is made by distilling out the volatile products in coal [no object] literary emanate as a vapor or in minute drops:she drew back from the dank breath that distilled out of the earth
2extract the essential meaning or most important aspects of:my travel notes were distilled into a book (as adjective distilled)the employee report is a distilled version of the main accounts
