boil down

About 0.28 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. verb To reduce in volume by boiling.

   He boiled the soup down so it wouldn't be so weak.

2. verb To become reduced (to the most central elements or ingredients: to the essence, core, or implication for action).

   So what this boils down to is that you still owe me that fifty bucks.

3. verb To reduce (to the most central elements or ingredients: to the essence, core, or implication for action).

   My dissertation is 342 pages long, and I'm required to boil it down to a one-page abstract?!

Similar words

decoct come down reduce concentrate unboil boil off bovrilize underboil vaporize bovrilise

Word family

boiled down boiling down boils down