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distill as in:  distill the whisky

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The ship distills fresh water from salt water.
distills = separates
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    It is illegal and dangerous to distill whisky without a license.
    distill = make
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    I poured the distilled water and added the drops from the base formula, then passed the tiny glass bottle through the ring made by my thumb and index fingers, counting to fifty or a hundred, then moving on to the next.  (source)
    distilled = purified
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    The doctor not only agreed to have Louie "hospitalized," he threw him a welcome-back-to-life bash, complete with a five-gallon barrel of "bourbon"—alcohol mixed with Coke syrup, distilled water, and whatever else was handy.  (source)
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    But now-I want you to feel old, I want a little of my cowardice to be distilled in you tonight.  (source)
    distilled = concentrated
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    Yes, a bottle of wine was the ultimate distillation of time and place; a poetic expression of individuality itself.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
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    By the evening of that day Napoleon was back at work, and on the next day it was learned that he had instructed Whymper to purchase in Willingdon some booklets on brewing and distilling.  (source)
    distilling = making alcoholic beverages
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    The harmattan was in the air and seemed to distill a hazy feeling of sleep on the world.  (source)
    distill = concentrate (make more powerful)
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    —Take the flowers of lilly of the valley and distil them in sack, and drink a spooneful or two as there is occasion.†  (source)
    unconventional spelling: Distil is the British spelling. Americans spell it distill.
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    There lay they, all around them spread a veil Of golden cloud, whence heav'nly dews distill'd.†  (source)
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    CYRANO (volubly): First, with body naked as your hand, Festooned about with crystal flacons, full O' th' tears the early morning dew distils; My body to the sun's fierce rays exposed To let it suck me up, as 't sucks the dew!†  (source)
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    The only part of his formula I know is that he uses distilled water for his ice and distills it himself to be sure.  (source)
    distills = purified
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    Sometimes they would drive all the way to Windsor, and stop at roadhouses that featured cocktails and ferocious piano-playing and raffish dancing — roadhouses frequented by gangsters involved in the rum-running, who would come up from Chicago and Detroit to make their deals with the law-abiding distillers on the Canadian side.†  (source)
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    Do you mean the distiller?†  (source)
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distill as in:  distill the central idea

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Distill the essential ideas to fit on a single page.
distill = extract (separate)
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    If you had to distill your life experience into one lesson to share, what would it be?
    distill = summarize the essence
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    These would be distilled into an 84-count indictment.  (source)
    distilled = extracted and concentrated
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    He distilled this for me to mean that Judge Taylor might look lazy and operate in his sleep, but he was seldom reversed, and that was the proof of the pudding.  (source)
    distilled = extracted the essential idea
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    Sweet roses do not so; Of their sweet deaths are sweetest odours made: And so of you, beauteous and lovely youth, When that shall vade, my verse distills—your truth.  (source)
    distills = concentrates the essential
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    The bathroom was plastered in girlie pinups, a Sistine Chapel of pornography. Phil gaped at it, marveling at the distillation of frustrated flyboy libido that had inspired it.  (source)
    distillation = concentration
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
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