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
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—so deathly, you know?
From Slate ● Sep. 26, 2016
Jeff Platt, a blogger in New York at a site called SaabsUnited, said that Mr. Muller was going to restore at Saab “what G.M. had distilled out of them.”
From New York Times ● Oct. 24, 2011
A man of few words, Mendel was even more concise in his writing: he had distilled nearly a decade’s work into forty-four spectacularly dreary pages.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
