📖 Definitions of "Boil down"
verb
- 1
To reduce in volume by boiling.
"He boiled the soup down so it wouldn't be so weak."
- 2
To become reduced (to the most central elements or ingredients: to the essence, core or implication for action).
"So what this boils down to is that you still owe me that fifty bucks."
- 3
To reduce (to the most central elements or ingredients: to the essence, core or implication for action).
"My dissertation is 342 pages long, and I'm required to boil it down to a one-page abstract?!"
💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Boil down"
Found via reverse dictionary — words that share a conceptual meaning.
| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| decoctverb | (cooking) To reduce, or concentrate by boiling down. |
| come downverb | (intransitive) To decrease. |
| reduceverb | (transitive) To bring down the size, quantity, quality, value or intensity of something; to diminish, to lower. |
| concentrateverb | (intransitive) To focus one's thought or attention (on). |
| unboilverb | (transitive) To reverse the process of boiling. |
| boil offverb | (transitive) to remove by boiling |
| bovrilizeverb | (transitive, archaic, humorous) To condense; to reduce to essential details, as when explaining something. |
| underboilverb | To boil insufficiently. |
| vaporizeverb | (ambitransitive) To turn into vapor. |
| bovriliseverb | Alternative form of bovrilize. [(transitive, archaic, humorous) To condense; to reduce to essential details, as when explaining something.] |
| whittle downverb | (transitive) To reduce gradually by removing pieces. |
| cut downverb | (idiomatic) To reduce the amount of something. |
| pare downverb | (idiomatic, transitive) To reduce by paring or a similar gradual process. |
| downsizeverb | (transitive) To reduce the workforce of. |
| go off the boilverb | (idiomatic, UK, Australia) To lose interest; to pall. |
| slim downverb | (ambitransitive) To reduce weight; to make or become thinner. |
| dial downverb | (idiomatic, transitive) To reduce or diminish in effect or intensity. |
| dwindleverb | (intransitive) To decrease, shrink, diminish, reduce in size or intensity. |
| dropnoun | (also figuratively) A small quantity of liquid, just large enough to hold its own round shape through surface tension, especially one that falls from a source of liquid. |
| cool downverb | (intransitive) To become less agitated or excited. |
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