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How to pronounce distil in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms distill
Type of change
Verb group make pure, distill, sublimate, purify, extract
Type Words
Synonyms distill
Type of transude, exudate, exude, ooze, ooze out


The doctor distilled a few drops of disinfectant onto the wound.
Type Words
Synonyms distill, extract
Type of make, create
Has types moonshine
Verb group distill


distill the essence of this compound.
Type Words
Synonyms condense, distill
Type of liquefy, flux, liquify
Verb group condense


The acid distills at a specific temperature.

Examples of distil

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The first thing the interviewee must do is distil the few most important issues.
From the economist.com
Some cocoa producing countries distil alcoholic spirits using the liquefied pulp.
From the en.wikipedia.org
It really does distil that sense of mid-Eighties disillusionment and despair.
From the independent.co.uk
Instead they distil the Palestinian experience of exile into something real.
From the economist.com
I said yes, I'd love to distil my thoughts about the situation into a poem.
From the guardian.co.uk
On the other hand, it seems reasonable to try and distil a mainstream line.
From the economist.com
One way to extract goodness from this explosion of print is to cut, reduce and distil.
From the guardian.co.uk
They distil their own wine, make herbal liqueur, keep bees for honey and grow lavender.
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His dictionary of 1755 lemmatises distil and instill, downhil and uphill.
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More examples
  • Condense: undergo condensation; change from a gaseous to a liquid state and fall in drops; "water condenses"; "The acid distills at a specific temperature"
  • Distill: extract by the process of distillation; "distill the essence of this compound"
  • Distill: give off (a liquid); "The doctor distilled a few drops of disinfectant onto the wound"
  • Distillation is a method of separating mixtures based on differences in their volatilities in a boiling liquid mixture. Distillation is a unit operation, or a physical separation process, and not a chemical reaction.