Both Uses of
distill
in
Fahrenheit 451
- Montag moved back to his own house, left the window wide, checked Mildred, tucked the covers about her carefully, and then lay down with the moonlight on his cheekbones and on the frowning ridges in his brow, with the moonlight distilled in each eye to form a silver cataract there.
p. 15.5distilled = concentrated
- But now-I want you to feel old, I want a little of my cowardice to be distilled in you tonight.
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Definitions:
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(1)
(distill as in: distill the whisky) to make a more pure or concentrated liquid by boiling it and condensing its vapors (as is done when making whisky or some petroleum products)
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(2)
(distill as in: distill the central idea) extract (separate essential ideas)