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• past participle of condense.
• past tense form of condense.

condensed

American  

[kuhn-denst] / kənˈdɛnst /

adjective

1. reduced in volume, area, length, or scope; shortened.

   a condensed version of the book.

2. made denser, especially reduced from a gaseous to a liquid state.

3. thickened by distillation or evaporation; concentrated.

   condensed lemon juice.

4. Printing. (of type) narrow in proportion to its height.

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condensed British  

/ kənˈdɛnst /

adjective

1. (of printers' type) narrower than usual for a particular height Compare expanded

2. botany designating an inflorescence in which the flowers are crowded together and are almost or completely sessile

3. Also called: fused.  chem designating a polycyclic ring system in a molecule in which two rings share two or more common atoms, as in naphthalene

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Other Word Forms

• condensedness
  noun
• noncondensed
  adjective
• uncondensed
  adjective
• well-condensed
  adjective
• condensedly
  adverb

Etymology

Origin of condensed

First recorded in 1375–1425; late Middle English; condense + -ed ²

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

condensed

The movie is more condensed than the novel; Hitchcock accepted that the film medium cannot access the inner thoughts of a human being, and so significant swaths of the book were excised.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026

She later returned to play out a condensed set.

From BBC ● Jun. 21, 2026

The idea draws on an unexpected connection between quantum gravity and the quantum Hall effect, a remarkable phenomenon in condensed matter physics.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 19, 2026

Her research, focused on soft condensed matter, has been seeking a comprehensive theory to explain the curious elasticity of such material.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 12, 2026

“We have condensed milk and I brought bananas to slice on top.”

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith

Related Words

• concise