All boil down synonyms

verb boil down

• mow — Chiefly Northern and North Midland U.S. to store (hay) in a barn.
• shear — to cut (something).
• trim — to put into a neat or orderly condition by clipping, paring, pruning, etc.: to trim a hedge.
• pare — Ambroise [ahn-brwaz] /ɑ̃ˈbrwaz/ (Show IPA), 1510–90, French surgeon.
• cut — If you cut something, you use a knife or a similar tool to divide it into pieces, or to mark it or damage it. If you cut a shape or a hole in something, you make the shape or hole by using a knife or similar tool.
• prune — a variety of plum that dries without spoiling.
• clip — A clip is a small device, usually made of metal or plastic, that is specially shaped for holding things together.
• abstract — An abstract idea or way of thinking is based on general ideas rather than on real things and events.
• reduce — to bring down to a smaller extent, size, amount, number, etc.: to reduce one's weight by 10 pounds.
• condense — If you condense something, especially a piece of writing or speech, you make it shorter, usually by including only the most important parts.
• contract — A contract is a legal agreement, usually between two companies or between an employer and employee, which involves doing work for a stated sum of money.
• summarize — to make a summary of; state or express in a concise form.
• digest — to convert (food) in the alimentary canal into absorbable form for assimilation into the system.
• consolidate — If you consolidate something that you have, for example power or success, you strengthen it so that it becomes more effective or secure.
• wedge — a piece of hard material with two principal faces meeting in a sharply acute angle, for raising, holding, or splitting objects by applying a pounding or driving force, as from a hammer. Compare machine (def 3b).
• cramp — Cramp is a sudden strong pain caused by a muscle suddenly contracting. You sometimes get cramp in a muscle after you have been making a physical effort over a long period of time.
• crowd — A crowd is a large group of people who have gathered together, for example to watch or listen to something interesting, or to protest about something.
• ram — random-access memory; computer memory available to the user for creating, loading, or running programs and for the temporary storage and manipulation of data, in which time of access to each item is independent of the storage sequence. As a storage medium, RAM is volatile, so its contents are lost when the power fails or is turned off.
• decrease — When something decreases or when you decrease it, it becomes less in quantity, size, or intensity.
• crush — To crush something means to press it very hard so that its shape is destroyed or so that it breaks into pieces.
• shrivel — shrink, dry up
• tighten — make more snug or secure
• dehydrate — When something such as food is dehydrated, all the water is removed from it, often in order to preserve it.
• squash — to press into a flat mass or pulp; crush: She squashed the flower under her heel.
• concentrate — If you concentrate on something, or concentrate your mind on it, you give all your attention to it.
• press — to force into service, especially naval or military service; impress.
• coagulate — When a liquid coagulates, it becomes very thick.
• bind — If something binds people together, it makes them feel as if they are all part of the same group or have something in common.
• stuff — the material of which anything is made: a hard, crystalline stuff.
• narrow — of little breadth or width; not broad or wide; not as wide as usual or expected: a narrow path.
• pack — a group of things wrapped or tied together for easy handling or carrying; a bundle, especially one to be carried on the back of an animal or a person: a mule pack; a hiker's pack.
• telescope — an optical instrument for making distant objects appear larger and therefore nearer. One of the two principal forms (refracting telescope) consists essentially of an objective lens set into one end of a tube and an adjustable eyepiece or combination of lenses set into the other end of a tube that slides into the first and through which the enlarged object is viewed directly; the other form (reflecting telescope) has a concave mirror that gathers light from the object and focuses it into an adjustable eyepiece or combination of lenses through which the reflection of the object is enlarged and viewed. Compare radio telescope.
• syncopate — Music. to place (the accents) on beats that are normally unaccented. to treat (a passage, piece, etc.) in this way.
• snip — to cut with a small, quick stroke, or a succession of such strokes, with scissors or the like.
• compact — Compact things are small or take up very little space. You use this word when you think this is a good quality.
• sum — the aggregate of two or more numbers, magnitudes, quantities, or particulars as determined by or as if by the mathematical process of addition: The sum of 6 and 8 is 14.
• inventory — a complete listing of merchandise or stock on hand, work in progress, raw materials, finished goods on hand, etc., made each year by a business concern.
• precipitate — to hasten the occurrence of; bring about prematurely, hastily, or suddenly: to precipitate an international crisis.
• solidify — to make solid; make into a hard or compact mass; change from a liquid or gaseous to a solid form.
• edit — to supervise or direct the preparation of (a newspaper, magazine, book, etc.); serve as editor of; direct the editorial policies of.
• chop — If you chop something, you cut it into pieces with strong downward movements of a knife or an axe.
• decoct — to extract (the essence or active principle) from (a medicinal or similar substance) by boiling
• summate — to add together; total; sum up.
• truncate — to shorten by cutting off a part; cut short: Truncate detailed explanations.
• retrench — to cut down, reduce, or diminish; curtail (expenses).
• dock — any of various weedy plants belonging to the genus Rumex, of the buckwheat family, as R. obtusifolius (bitter dock) or R. acetosa (sour dock) having long taproots.
• lop — to let hang or droop: He lopped his arms at his sides in utter exhaustion.
• minify — to make less.
• draw — to cause to move in a particular direction by or as if by a pulling force; pull; drag (often followed by along, away, in, out, or off).
• derive — If you derive something such as pleasure or benefit from a person or from something, you get it from them.