All distill synonyms
disΒ·till
D d verb distill
- infuse β to introduce, as if by pouring; cause to penetrate; instill (usually followed by into): The energetic new principal infused new life into the school.
- refine β to bring to a fine or a pure state; free from impurities: to refine metal, sugar, or petroleum.
- condense β If you condense something, especially a piece of writing or speech, you make it shorter, usually by including only the most important parts.
- precipitate β to hasten the occurrence of; bring about prematurely, hastily, or suddenly: to precipitate an international crisis.
- clarify β To clarify something means to make it easier to understand, usually by explaining it in more detail.
- concentrate β If you concentrate on something, or concentrate your mind on it, you give all your attention to it.
- press β to force into service, especially naval or military service; impress.
- dribble β to fall or flow in drops or small quantities; trickle.
- sublimate β Psychology. to divert the energy of (a sexual or other biological impulse) from its immediate goal to one of a more acceptable social, moral, or aesthetic nature or use.
- volatilize β to become volatile; pass off as vapor.
- purify β to make pure; free from anything that debases, pollutes, adulterates, or contaminates: to purify metals.
- drip β to let drops fall; shed drops: This faucet drips.
- brew β If you brew tea or coffee, you make it by pouring hot water over tea leaves or ground coffee.
- trickle β to flow or fall by drops, or in a small, gentle stream: Tears trickled down her cheeks.
- steam β water in the form of an invisible gas or vapor.
- trim β to put into a neat or orderly condition by clipping, paring, pruning, etc.: to trim a hedge.
- drop β a small quantity of liquid that falls or is produced in a more or less spherical mass; a liquid globule.
- rectify β to make, put, or set right; remedy; correct: He sent them a check to rectify his account.
- cook β When you cook a meal, you prepare food for eating by heating it.
- cut β 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.
- vaporize β to cause to change into vapor.
- rarefy β to make rare or rarer; make less dense: to rarefy a gas.
- ferment β Also called organized ferment. any of a group of living organisms, as yeasts, molds, and certain bacteria, that cause fermentation.
- cut down β If you cut down on something or cut down something, you use or do less of it.
- boil down β When you boil down a liquid or food, or when it boils down, it is boiled until there is less of it because some of the water in it has changed into steam or vapour.
- disinfect β to cleanse (rooms, wounds, clothing, etc.) of infection; destroy disease germs in.
- sanitize β to free from dirt, germs, etc., as by cleaning or sterilizing.
- clean β Something that is clean is free from dirt or unwanted marks.
- decontaminate β To decontaminate something means to remove all germs or dangerous substances from it.
- cleanse β To cleanse a place, person, or organization of something dirty, unpleasant, or evil means to make them free from it.
- glean β to gather slowly and laboriously, bit by bit.
- cull β If items or ideas are culled from a particular source or number of sources, they are taken and gathered together.
- garner β to gather or deposit in or as if in a granary or other storage place.
- collect β If you collect a number of things, you bring them together from several places or from several people.
- gather β to bring together into one group, collection, or place: to gather firewood; to gather the troops.
- obtain β to come into possession of; get, acquire, or procure, as through an effort or by a request: to obtain permission; to obtain a better income.
noun distill
- rotgut β cheap and inferior liquor.
- distillery β a place or establishment where distilling, especially the distilling of liquors, is done.
- bourbon β Bourbon is a type of whisky that is made mainly in America.
- usquebaugh β (in Scotland and Ireland) whiskey.
- corn β Corn is used to refer to crops such as wheat and barley. It can also be used to refer to the seeds from these plants.
- rye β a city in SE New York, on Long Island Sound.
- hooch β Pieter de [pee-ter duh;; Dutch pee-tuh r duh] /Λpi tΙr dΙ;; Dutch Λpi tΙr dΙ/ (Show IPA), 1629?β88? Dutch painter.
- whiskey β an alcoholic liquor distilled from a fermented mash of grain, as barley, rye, or corn, and usually containing from 43 to 50 percent alcohol.
- poteen β the first distillation of a fermented mash in the making of whiskey.
- distiller β an apparatus for distilling, as a condenser; still.
- spiritus frumenti β whiskey.
- moonshiner β a person who distills or sells liquor, especially corn liquor, illegally.