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Boil down

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Verb
  1. 1
    To reduce in volume by boiling. intransitive, transitive

    "He boiled the soup down so it wouldn't be so weak."

  2. 2
    cook until very little liquid is left wordnet
  3. 3
    To become reduced (to the most central elements or ingredients: to the essence, core, or implication for action). intransitive

    "So what this boils down to is that you still owe me that fifty bucks."

  4. 4
    be cooked until very little liquid is left wordnet
  5. 5
    To reduce (to the most central elements or ingredients: to the essence, core, or implication for action). transitive

    "My dissertation is 342 pages long, and I'm required to boil it down to a one-page abstract?!"

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  1. 6
    be the essential element wordnet

Etymology

As an allusion to the technique of reduction or decreasing liquid content of food by boiling much of its water off.

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