[dɪˈstɪl], (Verb)

Definitions:
- purify (a liquid) by heating it so that it vaporizes, then cooling and condensing the vapour and collecting the resulting liquid
(e.g: they managed to distil a small quantity of water)

- extract the essential meaning or most important aspects of
(e.g: my travel notes were distilled into a book)


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Origin:
late Middle English: from Latin distillare, variant of destillare, from de- ‘down, away’ + stillare (from stilla ‘a drop’)