Usually means: Reduce something to its essence.
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General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. boil down: Merriam-Webster
  2. boil down: Collins English Dictionary
  3. boil down: Vocabulary.com
  4. boil (sth) down: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  5. boil down: Wiktionary
  6. boil down: Dictionary.com
  7. boil down: Rhymezone
  8. boil down: FreeDictionary.org
  9. boil down: Mnemonic Dictionary
  10. boil down: TheFreeDictionary.com
  11. boil down: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. boil down: Legal dictionary

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  1. boil down: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. boil down: Medical dictionary

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  1. boil down: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. boil down: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (boil down)

verb:  (transitive and intransitive) To reduce in volume by boiling.
verb:  (intransitive) To become reduced (to the most central elements or ingredients: to the essence, core, or implication for action).
verb:  (transitive) To reduce (to the most central elements or ingredients: to the essence, core, or implication for action).

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