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boiled down

adjective as in refined

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“It boiled down to a perjury charge,” he tells The Daily Beast.

Their disciplined diet can be boiled down to three simple rules that we can massage to fit our untelevised lifestyle.

During a recent interview with Greta Van Susteren of Fox News, for instance, Rush Limbaugh boiled down the argument to its core.

Then an entire trial could be boiled down to asking a single person if he committed the crime.

Buffett in his action has boiled down the entire health-care debate to its most elemental: what is the cost of peace of mind?

The leaves alone are used in trade: they are first stripped off the stalk, and then boiled down in large coppers.

The remainder is boiled down into a syrup, or further simmered until it thickens into cakes, called chancacas, or brown sugar.

The explorers remained in camp the next day and boiled down some of the water from the lake, thereby obtaining considerable salt.

It was a phrase, nothing more, and could be boiled down until its whole purport was contained in one word—Never!

Over each serving, pour some of the peach juice, which has been boiled down into a thick sirup.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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