distill
verb (used with object)
to subject to a process of vaporization and subsequent condensation, as for purification or concentration.
had distilled
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past perfectof distill.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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I thought it could pass for an experimental oak-aged gin that some hipster had distilled in his mom’s garage.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 26, 2019
“It was as if God had distilled in him the essence of competition,” the English journalist John Reason wrote.
From New York Times ● Aug. 22, 2017
Three weeks and 68 teams had distilled to this final snippet, with the possibility of a Gonzaga three-point shot perhaps ringing in Carolinian heads.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 4, 2017
You had distilled the reason we didn’t buy into the new cliché.
From Slate ● Sep. 29, 2016
It looked as if an alchemist had distilled a dozen swords, and when the crucible had cooled this was lying in the bottom: a sword in its pure form.
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
