Boil-down Definition

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(intransitive) Used other than as an idiom: see boil,"Ž down.

He boiled the soup down so it wouldn't be so weak.
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(intransitive) To become reduced (to the most central elements or ingredients: to the essence, core, or implication for action).

So what this boils down to is that you still owe me that fifty bucks.
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To reduce (to the most central elements or ingredients: to the essence, core, or implication for action).

My dissertation is 342 pages long, and I'm required to boil it down to a one-page abstract?!
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Origin of Boil-down

  • As an allusion to the technique of reduction or decreasing liquid content of food by boiling much of its water off.

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