1. condense(v = verb.change) distil, distill - undergo condensation; change from a gaseous to a liquid state and fall in drops; "water condenses"; "The acid distills at a specific temperature"
is one way to flux, liquefy, liquify
Derived forms noun condensate2, noun condensation2
Sample sentences:
The water condenses
2. condense(v = verb.change) concentrate, digest - make more concise; "condense the contents of a book into a summary"
is one way to abbreviate, abridge, contract, cut, foreshorten, reduce, shorten
Derived forms noun condensation5, noun condenser4
Sample sentences:
Something ----s; Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something
3. condense(v = verb.change) - remove water from; "condense the milk"
is one way to remove, take, take away, withdraw
Derived forms noun condensation6, noun condensation4, noun condensing1
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
4. condense(v = verb.change) - cause a gas or vapor to change into a liquid; "The cold air condensed the steam"
is one way to change integrity
Derived forms noun condensate2, noun condensation3, noun condensation2, noun condenser3, noun condenser2, noun condensing1
Sample sentences:
They condense the water
5. condense(v = verb.change) - become more compact or concentrated; "Her feelings condensed"
is one way to deepen, intensify
Derived form noun condensation4
Sample sentences:
Something ----s
6. condense(v = verb.change) - develop due to condensation; "All our planets condensed out of the same material"
is one way to arise, come up
Derived forms noun condensation6, noun condensing1
Sample sentences:
Something ----s
7. condense(v = verb.change) concentrate, contract - compress or concentrate; "Congress condensed the three-year plan into a six-month plan"
is one way to alter, change, modify
Derived form noun condensation4
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something
1. To make more close, compact, or dense; to compress or concentrate into a smaller compass; to consolidate; to abridge; to epitomize. [1913 Webster]
"In what shape they choose,
Dilated or condensed, bright or obscure." [1913 Webster]
"The secret course pursued at Brussels and at Madrid may be condensed into the usual formula, dissimulation, procrastination, and again dissimulation." [1913 Webster]
2. To reduce into another and denser form, as by cold or pressure; as, to condense gas into a liquid form, or steam into water. [1913 Webster]
1. To become more compact; to be reduced into a denser form. [1913 Webster]
"Nitrous acid is gaseous at ordinary temperatures, but condenses into a very volatile liquid at the zero of Fahrenheit." [1913 Webster]
2. To combine or unite (as two chemical substances) with or without separation of some unimportant side products. [1913 Webster]
Condensed; compact; dense. [1913 Webster]
"The huge condense bodies of planets." [1913 Webster]
condense, v.
1 tr. make denser or more concentrated.
2 tr. express in fewer words; make concise.
3 tr. & intr. reduce or be reduced from a gas or solid to a liquid.
Idiom:
condensed milk milk thickened by evaporation and sweetened.
Derivative:
condensable adj.
Etymology:
F condenser or L condensare (as com-, densus thick)
VB be concise, condense, abridge, abstract, come to the point.
VB abridge, abstract, epitomize, summarize, make an abstract, prepare an abstract, draw an abstract, compile an abstract, recapitulate, review, skim, run over, sum up, abbreviate, condense, compile.
VB become small, become smaller, lessen, decrease, grow less, dwindle, shrink, contract, narrow, shrivel, collapse, wither, lose flesh, wizen, fall away, waste, wane, ebb, decay, be smaller than, fall short of, not come up to, render smaller, lessen, diminish, contract, draw in, narrow, coarctate, boil down, constrict, constringe, condense, compress, squeeze, corrugate, crimp, crunch, crush, crumple up, warp, purse up, pack, squeeze, stow, pinch, tighten, strangle, cramp, dwarf, bedwarf, shorten, circumscribe, restrain, (subtraction) 38 abrade, pare, reduce, attenuate, rub down, scrape, file, file down, grind, grind down, chip, shave, shear, wear down.
VB be dense, become solid, render solid, solidify, solidate, concrete, set, take a set, consolidate, congeal, coagulate, curd, curdle, lopper, fix, clot, cake, candy, precipitate, deposit, cohere, crystallize, petrify, condense, thicken, gel, inspissate, incrassate, compress, squeeze, ram down, constipate.
VB be fluid, flow, liquefy, melt, condense.
VB render liquid, liquefy, run, deliquesce, melt, solve, dissolve, resolve, liquate, hold in solution, condense, precipitate, rain.