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condense

To condense is to make something shorter or more concentrated, or to cause to change from a gas or vapor to a liquid. (verb)

  1. When you take a paper that is two pages and shorten it to one, this is an example of a time when you condense the paper.
  2. When a cool air temperature makes steam turn to water, this is an example of a time when the air condenses the steam.

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