distill

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Made it kind of hard to feel bad for my kids struggling to understand, distill, and regurgitate concepts, with pencil and paper, in a warm house, with bellies full and a comfy bed waiting.

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  1. transitive verb To subject (a substance) to distillation.
  2. transitive verb To separate (a distillate) by distillation.
  3. transitive verb To increase the concentration of, separate, or purify by or as if by distillation.

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  • It means ‘to distill or extract.’ If I might make a suggestion? —  Death Gate Cycle 1 - Dragon Wing
  • Young four-piece Zeroes looked like the sort of lads that you might expect to be your run-of-the-mill indie rock but surprisingly distill a range of influences that you wouldn't expect from a band that young. —  For the 'records'
  • Why wade through all of the camera information when there is someone in your life more than willing to distill it into a simple recommendation for you? —  Find Free Articles - ArticlesBase
  • The game's charming "art style" was a hit with the character's mega fans and developer Inti Creates managed to distill the essence of the Mega Man Classic series into an entirely new game. —  Gaming Target
  • Seventy kilometers (43 miles) farther south, on the Rufiji River, thousands of residents are being forced to move to make way for the Swedish company Sekab's plans to grow sugarcane, a highly water-intensive crop, on at least 9,000 hectares (22,230 acres) and then distill it into ethanol. —  Mathaba Highlights Briefing
 

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  1. Middle English distillen, from Old French distiller, from Latin distillāre, variant of dēstillāre, to trickle : dē-, de- + stillāre, to drip (from stilla, drop).
 

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/dɪsˈtɪl/
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