Usually means: Purify liquid by heating, cooling.
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General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. distil: Merriam-Webster
  2. distil: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. distil: Collins English Dictionary
  4. distil: Vocabulary.com
  5. Distil, distil: Wordnik
  6. distil: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. distil: Wiktionary
  8. distil: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. Distil, distil: Dictionary.com
  10. Distil: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. distil: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  12. distil: Rhymezone
  13. Distil: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. distil: FreeDictionary.org
  15. distil: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. distil: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Natural Magick (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. distil: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. distil: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. distil: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. distil: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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verb:  (transitive)
verb:  To exude (a liquid) in small drops; also, to give off (a vapour) which condenses in small drops.
verb:  (by extension, figuratively) To impart (information, etc.) in small quantities; to infuse.
verb:  To heat (a substance, usually a liquid) so that a vapour is produced, and then to cool the vapour so that it condenses back into a liquid, either to purify the original substance or to obtain one of its components; to subject to distillation.
verb:  Followed by off or out: to expel (a volatile substance) from something by distillation.
verb:  (also figuratively)
verb:  To extract the essence of (something) by, or as if by, distillation; to concentrate, to purify.
verb:  To transform a thing (into something else) by distillation.
verb:  (also figuratively) To make (something, especially spirits such as gin and whisky) by distillation.
verb:  (machine learning) To transform a complex large language model into a smaller one.
verb:  (obsolete) To dissolve or melt (something).
verb:  (intransitive)
verb:  To fall or trickle down in small drops; to exude, to ooze out; also, to come out as a vapour which condenses in small drops.
verb:  To flow or pass gently or slowly; hence (figuratively) to be manifested gently or gradually.
verb:  To drip or be wet with some liquid.
verb:  To turn into a vapour and then condense back into a liquid; to undergo or be produced by distillation.

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