Definition of Distill

to extract out the essential meaning or most important pieces of something

Examples of Distill in a sentence

Though he didn’t know some of the words, the reader was able to distill most of what the author was saying.  🔊

Working through over 500 tips, detectives tried to distill the most crucial information from the reports.  🔊

The writers were asked to distill the most important points of their articles and put them into one sentence.  🔊

One of the professor’s jobs was to take complicated concepts and distill them into simple note cards.  🔊

Because it was jam-packed with important information, it was hard for the creator to distill the video down to ten minutes.  🔊

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