Boil Down

Definition: Boil Down

Boil Down

Verb

1. Be the essential element; "The proposal boils down to a compromise".

2. Be cooked until very little is left; as of sauces; "The sauce should reduce to one cup".

3. Cook until very little liquid is left, as of sauces; "The cook reduced the sauce by boiling it for a long time".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Boil Down

Contraction

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.

Crosswords: Boil Down

Expressions using "boil down": boil down to ♦ To boil down. Additional references.

Albanian

redukohem, avulloj (boil, vaporize, volatilize). (various references)

Arabic 

‏إختصر (abbreviate, abridge, analyse, analyze, clip, curtail, cut short, limit, nick, outline, reduce, shorten, syncopate). (various references)

Bulgarian 

свеждам се (resolve), изпарявам се (dry off, evaporate, exhale, fume, make one's scarce, make oneself scarce, mosey, ooze, scat, skedaddle, steam away, vanish into the void, vapor, vaporize, vapour, volatilize), изпарявам (evaporate, exhale, vaporize, volatilize). (various references)

Czech

zahustit (thicken), uvařit (boil, boil up, cook, cook up, do), svařit se, scvrknout. (various references)

Dutch

indampen (evaporate). (various references)

French

se réduire (boil away). (various references)

German

einkochen (pot, preserve). (various references)

Greek 

συμπυκνώνω (compact, compress, concentrate, condense), βράζομαι, εξατμίζομαι (evaporate, vapor, vapour, volatilize). (various references)

Hebrew 

ל�"צטמצם (be reduced, contract, dwindle, limit oneself). (various references)

Hungarian

sûrít (compress, condense). (various references)

Italian

condensare (condense, digest). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

煎 (broil, fire, parch, roast). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

せ�" (at length, attentively, beam, before, boastfully usurping, broil, carefully, choice, clip, compilation, cork, deeply, editing, fire, former, gland, hermit, hundredth of a yen, late, line, old, parch, precedence, previous, priority, profoundly, roast, selection, snip, stopcock, stopper, the future, thousand, wire, wizard). (various references)

Manx

jannoo gaal (jeh) (evaporate), jannoo gaal (evaporate, vaporize, vapour). (various references)

Pig Latin

oilbay ownday.(various references)

Portuguese

resumir (abstract, brief, compact, compress, condense, digest, epitomize, extract, precis, resume, shorten, sum up, summarize, wind up), reduzir (bate, curtail, cut, decrease, diminish, lessen, minify, minimize, reduce, restrict, retrench, scale, scrimp, shorten, sink, skimp, slash, to reduce, weaken, wear down, write off). (various references)

Romanian

se reduce (amount to, cancel, decrease, lessen, lower), scãdea la fiert, lãsa sã scadã la fiert, face sã scadã prin fierbere. (various references)

Russian 

сгущать (concentrate, condense, exalt, inspissate, stiffen, thicken), выпаривать. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

ukuvati (cook in). (various references)

Spanish

reducirse de, condensar (abridge, compress, condensate, condense, precipitate), abreviar (abbreviate, abridge, be quick, curtail, cut short, shorten). (various references)

Swedish

gå ut på. (various references)

Thai

ล�"ลง (dip, ebb, lessen, lower, roll back, slide). (various references)

Turkish

kaynatıp özünü çıkarmak, kısa kesmek (be brief, Bob, chop one's words, curtail, cut short, draw it fine, shingle, tell briefly, wrap it up), özetlemek (abridge, abstract, brief, compress, encapsulate, epitomize, incapsulate, outline, precis, reduce, resume, sum up, summarize, totalize, wrap up), özüne indirgemek. (various references)

Ukrainian

уварювати, скорочувати (abate, abbreviate, abridge, ax, axe, blue pencil, cancel, castrate, curtail, cut, lop away, lop off, prune, retrench, shorten, shrink), випарювати (extract). (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: woodbin.

-2 letters: diobol, doblon.

-3 letters: blind, blond, blood, blown, indol, indow, oboli.

-4 letters: bind, blin, blow, boil, bold, bolo, bond, boon, bowl, diol, down, idol, lido, lino, lion, lobo, loin, loon, lown, nodi, noil, nolo, obol, olio, wild, wind, wino, wold, wood, wool.

-5 letters: bid, bin, bio, bod, boo, bow, dib, din, dol, don, dow.