distil
English
Alternative forms
- distill (North America)
Etymology
Borrowed from Old French distiller, from Latin dēstillō, dēstillāre.
Pronunciation
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- Rhymes: -ɪl
- Hyphenation: dis‧til
Verb
distil (third-person singular simple present distils, present participle distilling, simple past and past participle distilled)
- (transitive) To subject to distillation.
- 1880, Tullidge's Quarterly Magazine of Utah
- In fact, it is used in a variety of medicines; we boil, burn, and distil it, to produce salts, corrodents, sublimates, […]
- 1880, Tullidge's Quarterly Magazine of Utah
- (intransitive) To undergo or be produced by distillation.
- (transitive) To make by means of distillation, especially whisky.
- (transitive) To exude in small drops.
- Firs distil resin.
- (transitive) To impart in small quantities.
- (transitive) To extract the essence of; concentrate; purify.
- (intransitive) To trickle down or fall in small drops; ooze out.
- (intransitive) To be manifested gently or gradually.
- (intransitive) To drip or be wet with. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
Derived terms
Translations
to subject a substance to distillation
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to undergo distillation
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to make by means of distillation
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to exude in small drops
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to trickle down in small drops
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Old High German
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *þistilaz, whence also Old English þistel, Old Norse þistill
Noun
distil f
Descendants
- German: Distel
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