Thesaurus / boil down
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synonyms for boil down
- trim
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- slash
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- cut down
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- chop
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- edit
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- condense
- contract
- snip
- dock
- lop
- retrench
- bob
- blue pencil
- cut to the bone
- make a long story short
- put in a nutshell
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- clarify
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- disinvolve
- chasten
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- explain
- elucidate
- decipher
- analyze
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- streamline
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- clean it up
- clean up
- cut the frills
- draw a picture
- get down to basics
- get to the meat
- hit the high spots
- let daylight in
- let sunlight in
- make clear
- make perfectly clear
- make plain
- put in a nutshell
- put one straight
- rehash
- outline
- compile
- epitomize
- recap
- sum up
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- inventory
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- blue pencil
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- slice off
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- coagulate
- bind
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- stuff
- epitomize
- narrow
- pack
- telescope
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- force into space
- make brief
- press together
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- snip
- digest
- compact
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- sum
- inventory
- precipitate
- shrink
- solidify
- concentrate
- coagulate
- encapsulate
- edit
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- epitomize
- constrict
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- précis
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- telescope
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- summate
- blue pencil
- densen
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- draw
- derive
- ratiocinate
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- reason
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- be afraid
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- trim
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- inventory
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- cut to bone
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- put in a nutshell
- infuse
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- cut down
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- get to the meat
- press out
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- rearrange
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- choose
- publish
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- adapt
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- rectify
- feature
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- regulate
- check
- style
- cut
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- condense
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- rephrase
- draft
- correct
- tighten
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- scrub
- prescribe
- report
- amplify
- discard
- proofread
- assign
- massage
- go over
- make up
- put together
- set up
- strike out
- redact
- blue-pencil
- fly speck
- recalibrate
- write over
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- fill
- blow up
- untie
- loose
- unwrinkle
- raise
- strengthen
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- allow
- open
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- free
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- grow
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- amplify
- detail
- fill
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- strengthen
- raise
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- expand
- develop
- misunderstand
- grow
- lengthen
- increase
- enlarge
- amplify
- disorganize
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How to use boil down in a sentence
Then there was Wee Wo,—he was a little Chinese chap, and we used to send him down the chimneys to open front doors for us.
DAVY AND THE GOBLINCHARLES E. CARRYLThe bride elect rushes up to him, and so they both step down to the foot-lights.
PHYSIOLOGY OF THE OPERAJOHN H. SWABY (AKA "SCRICI")I take the Extream Bells, and set down the six Changes on them thus.
TINTINNALOGIA, OR, THE ART OF RINGINGRICHARD DUCKWORTH AND FABIAN STEDMANHis wife stood smiling and waving, the boys shouting, as he disappeared in the old rockaway down the sandy road.
THE AWAKENING AND SELECTED SHORT STORIESKATE CHOPINSo he bore down on the solemn declaration that she stood face to face with a prison term for perjury.
THE BONDBOYGEORGE W. (GEORGE WASHINGTON) OGDENDo not the widow's tears run down the cheek, and her cry against him that causeth them to fall?
THE BIBLE, DOUAY-RHEIMS VERSIONVARIOUSThe two women had no intention of bathing; they had just strolled down to the beach for a walk and to be alone and near the water.
THE AWAKENING AND SELECTED SHORT STORIESKATE CHOPINBut, when the car came thundering down, it was crammed to the step; with a melancholy gesture, the driver declined her signal.
HILDA LESSWAYSARNOLD BENNETTAs Spain, however, has fallen from the high place she once held, her colonial system has also gone down.
TOBACCO; ITS HISTORY, VARIETIES, CULTURE, MANUFACTURE AND COMMERCEE. R. BILLINGS.The volcanic eruptions of the mountains on the west broke down its barriers, and let its waters flow.
BLACKWOOD'S EDINBURGH MAGAZINE, VOLUME 60, NO. 372, OCTOBER 1846VARIOUSWORDS RELATED TO BOIL DOWN
- abbreviate
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- decocting
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- inventorying
- precipitating
- pressing together
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- putting in a nutshell
- reducing
- shortening
- shrinking
- snipping
- solidifying
- summarizing
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- synopsizing
- telescoping
- thickening
- trimming
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.