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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of decoct.

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Examples

  • Stripped of all my layers; decocted down to an essence, it feels somehow comfortable and real; life is here, not through a window or on a screen.

    Richard Bangs: Following Brad and Angelina to Namibia, Part III Richard Bangs 2011

  • Stripped of all my layers; decocted down to an essence, it feels somehow comfortable and real; life is here, not through a window or on a screen.

    Richard Bangs: Following Brad and Angelina to Namibia, Part III Richard Bangs 2011

  • Bloggers decocted the effects of beauty on the beholder and the holder.

    Debrahlee Lorenzana Asks Human Rights Officials To Investigate Citibank (VIDEO) 2010

  • The resin was used to heal cuts, sores, and boils and was also decocted for the treatment of venereal diseases.

    White fir 2009

  • They may not be able to tell you what krausening a triple decocted Munich, Vienna, and Maris Otter wort means or how it is accomplished, but they know what a cascade hop is and some basic differentiating characteristics between, say, a Belgian Blonde and an American Pale Ale.

    Archive 2008-10-01 2008

  • They may not be able to tell you what krausening a triple decocted Munich, Vienna, and Maris Otter wort means or how it is accomplished, but they know what a cascade hop is and some basic differentiating characteristics between, say, a Belgian Blonde and an American Pale Ale.

    Movie Review – 99 Bottles 2008

  • Varangian, who proffered his modicum of decocted barley, which these barbarians prefer to the juice of the grape.

    Count Robert of Paris 2008

  • Now water is collected from the three hundred and sixty veins and, in the form of red blood, entereth the left testicle, where it is decocted, by the heat of temperament inherent in the son of Adam, into a thick, white liquid, whose odour is as that of the palm-spathe.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Remember the legal battles over reproductive rights, decocted into the formulation of "keeping government out of our bedrooms"?

    Adam Hanft: California's Misguided War on Self-Knowledge 2008

  • Remember the legal battles over reproductive rights, decocted into the formulation of "keeping government out of our bedrooms"?

    Adam Hanft: California's Misguided War on Self-Knowledge 2008

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