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condense
[ kuhn-dens ]
verb (used with object)
- to make more dense or compact; reduce the volume or extent of; concentrate.
Synonyms: consolidate, compress
Antonyms: expand
- to reduce to a shorter form; abridge:
Condense your answer into a few words.
Synonyms: abbreviate, abstract, epitomize, digest
- to reduce to another and denser form, as a gas or vapor to a liquid or solid state.
verb (used without object)
- to become denser or more compact or concentrated.
- to reduce a book, speech, statement, or the like, to a shorter form.
- to become liquid or solid, as a gas or vapor:
The steam condensed into droplets.
condense
/ kənˈdɛns /
verb
- tr to increase the density of; compress
- to reduce or be reduced in volume or size; make or become more compact
- to change or cause to change from a gaseous to a liquid or solid state
- chem to undergo or cause to undergo condensation
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Derived Forms
- conˈdensable, adjective
- conˌdensaˈbility, noun
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Other Words From
- over·con·dense verb overcondensed overcondensing
- precon·dense verb precondensed precondensing
- recon·dense verb recondensed recondensing
- uncon·densing adjective
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of condense1
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Synonym Study
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Example Sentences
Those vapors condense into a liquid later in the process and that “condensate” is collected in a storage area, called a sump.
She speaks in thick paragraphs that her staffers probably wish they could condense and sharpen at times.
I cannot condense the horror of either the Bosnian war or the Rwandan genocide in the length of this column.
They get an actor on the schedule at their budgets where they try to condense roles.
Should the vapor not condense well, the test-tube may be immersed in a glass of cold water.
"I wonder if she has ever tried to condense rudeness into an epigram," said Isabel viciously, pausing in her narrative.
I tried to condense the steam by the cold sides of the condenser, without using injection-water.
After a while it became cool enough to permit the water to condense on the surface and so the ocean began to be formed.
Heat and light come and go, as vapors of water condense into rain and dissolve into vapor to return again to the atmosphere.
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