Dictionary Entry
condense
condense is a 8-letter English word with 13 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, adjective, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To make more close, compact, or dense; to compress or concentrate into a smaller compass; to consolidate; to abridge; to epitomize. Face value is 11 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
8 letters · Scrabble 11 · Words With Friends 14 · 13 senses
Definitions
- 1transitive verb
To make more close, compact, or dense; to compress or concentrate into a smaller compass; to consolidate; to abridge; to epitomize.
- 2transitive verb
To reduce into another and denser form, as by cold or pressure; as, to condense gas into a liquid form, or steam into water.
- 3intransitive verb
To become more compact; to be reduced into a denser form.
- 4intransitive verb
To combine or unite (as two chemical substances) with or without separation of some unimportant side products.
- 5intransitive verb
To undergo polymerization.
- 6adjective
Condensed; compact; dense.
- 7verb
make more concise
"condense the contents of a book into a summary"
Synonyms
- 8verb
undergo condensation; change from a gaseous to a liquid state and fall in drops
"water condenses"
"The acid distills at a specific temperature"
- 9verb
compress or concentrate
"Congress condensed the three-year plan into a six-month plan"
Synonyms
- 10verb
develop due to condensation
"All our planets condensed out of the same material"
- 11verb
become more compact or concentrated
"Her feelings condensed"
- 12verb
cause a gas or vapor to change into a liquid
"The cold air condensed the steam"
- 13verb
remove water from
"condense the milk"
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