condense

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. v. To reduce the volume or compass of.
2. v. To make more concise; abridge or shorten.
3. v. Physics To cause (a gas or vapor) to change to a liquid.
4. v. Physics To remove water from (milk, for example).
5. v. To become more compact.
6. v. To undergo condensation.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. To make more dense or compact; reduce the volume or compass of; bring into closer union of parts; consolidate; compress: used both literally and figuratively.
2. In chem. and physical, to reduce to another and denser form, as a gas or vapor to the condition of a liquid or of a solid, as by pressure or abstraction of heat.
3. Synonyms To concentrate, contract, crowd together, inspissate; to abridge, shorten, reduce, epitomize, abbreviate; to solidify.
4. To become denser or more compact, as the particles of a body; become liquid or solid, as a gas or vapor.
5. Close in texture or composition; compact; dense.

Wiktionary

1. v. transitive To decrease size or volume by concentration toward the essence.
2. v. intransitive, chemistry To transform from a gaseous state into a liquid state via condensation.
3. adj. archaic Condensed; compact; dense.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. v. To make more close, compact, or dense; to compress or concentrate into a smaller compass; to consolidate; to abridge; to epitomize.
2. v. (Chem. & Physics) To reduce into another and denser form, as by cold or pressure.
3. v. To become more compact; to be reduced into a denser form.
4. v. To combine or unite (as two chemical substances) with or without separation of some unimportant side products.
5. v. To undergo polymerization.
6. adj. rare Condensed; compact; dense.

WordNet 3.0

1. v. undergo condensation; change from a gaseous to a liquid state and fall in drops
2. v. remove water from
3. v. cause a gas or vapor to change into a liquid
4. v. make more concise
5. v. become more compact or concentrated
6. v. develop due to condensation
7. v. compress or concentrate