Usually means: Make something denser or shorter.
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  1. condense: Merriam-Webster
  2. condense: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. condense: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. condense: Collins English Dictionary
  5. condense: Vocabulary.com
  6. Condense, condense: Wordnik
  7. condense: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. condense: Wiktionary
  9. condense: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. condense: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. condense: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. condense: Dictionary.com
  13. condense: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. condense: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Condense: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Condense: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. condense: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. condense: Rhymezone
  19. condense: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. condense: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. condense: FreeDictionary.org
  22. condense: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. condense: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. condense: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  2. condense: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. condense: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. condense: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
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  3. condense: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. condense: Idioms

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  3. CONDENSE: Power Engineering

(Note: See condensable as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive) To concentrate toward the essence by making more close, compact, or dense, thereby decreasing size or volume.
verb:  (transitive, chemistry) To transform from a gaseous state into a liquid state via condensation.
verb:  (intransitive, chemistry) To be transformed from a gaseous state into a liquid state.
adjective:  (archaic) Condensed; compact; dense.

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