Word Meanings - CONDENSE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To reduce into another and denser form, as by cold or pressure; as, to condense gas into a liquid form, or steam into water. Condensed milk, milk reduced to the consistence of very thick cream by evaporation for preservation and transportation.

Additional info about word: CONDENSE

To reduce into another and denser form, as by cold or pressure; as, to condense gas into a liquid form, or steam into water. Condensed milk, milk reduced to the consistence of very thick cream by evaporation for preservation and transportation. -- Condensing engine, a steam engine in which the steam is condensed after having exerted its force on the piston. Syn. -- To compress; contract; crowd; thicken; concentrate; abridge; epitomize; reduce. (more info) dense, densus thick, dense: cf. F. condenser. See Dense, and cf. 1. To make more close, compact, or dense; to compress or concentrate into a smaller compass; to consolidate; to abridge; to epitomize. In what shape they choose, Dilated or condensed, bright or obscure. Milton. The secret course pursued at Brussels and at Madrid may be condensed into the usual formula, dissimulation, procrastination, and again dissimulation. Motley.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of CONDENSE)

• Abbreviate
• Shorten
• reduce
• abridge
• contract
• curtail
• epitomize
• condense
• prune
• compress
• Abridge
• diminish
• shorten
• lessen
• restrict
• tract
• Coagulate
• Mix
• blend
• fuse
• coalesce
• amalgamate
• Codify
• Summarize
• digest
• incorporate
• embody
• Concentrate
• assemble
• converge
• muster
• congregate
• convene
• draw
• conglomerate
• localize
• centralize

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of CONDENSE)

• Expand
• amplify
• dilate
• elongate
• reverse
• cancel
• abandon
• Displace
• confound
• complicate
• derange
• disorder
• discompose
• eject
• refuse
• reject
• disturb
• Dismiss
• disperse
• relegate
• remit
• disband

Related words: (words related to CONDENSE)

• DISMISSIVE
  Giving dismission.
• REVERSED
  Annulled and the contrary substituted; as, a reversed judgment or decree. Reversed positive or negative , a picture corresponding with the original in light and shade, but reversed as to right and left. Abney. (more info) 1. Turned side for side,
• DIMINISH
  To make smaller by a half step; to make less than minor; as, a diminished seventh. 4. To take away; to subtract. Neither shall ye diminish aught from it. Deut. iv. 2. Diminished column, one whose upper diameter is less than the lower.
• DERANGER
  One who deranges.
• CONFOUNDED
  1. Confused; perplexed. A cloudy and confounded philosopher. Cudworth. 2. Excessive; extreme; abominable. He was a most confounded tory. Swift. The tongue of that confounded woman. Sir. W. Scott.
• DIGESTER
  1. One who digests. 2. A medicine or an article of food that aids digestion, or strengthens digestive power. Rice is . . . a great restorer of health, and a great digester. Sir W. Temple. 3. A strong closed vessel, in which bones or other
• COALESCE
  1. To grow together; to unite by growth into one body; as, the parts separated by a wound coalesce. 2. To unite in one body or product; to combine into one body or community; as, vapors coalesce. The Jews were incapable of coalescing with other
• DERANGEMENT
  The act of deranging or putting out of order, or the state of being deranged; disarrangement; disorder; confusion; especially, mental disorder; insanity. Syn. -- Disorder; confusion; embarrassment; irregularity; disturbance; insanity;
• EJECTOR
  A jet jump for lifting water or withdrawing air from a space. Ejector condenser , a condenser in which the vacuum is maintained by a jet pump. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, ejects or dispossesses.
• COAGULATE
  Coagulated. Shak. (more info) coagulate, fr. coagulum means of coagulation, fr. cogere, coactum, to
• EPITOMIZER
  An epitomist. Burton.
• DISMISSAL
  Dismission; discharge. Officeholders were commanded faithfully to enforce it, upon pain of immediate dismissal. Motley.
• REDUCEMENT
  Reduction. Milton.
• TRACTORATION
  See PERKINISM
• DERANGED
  Disordered; especially, disordered in mind; crazy; insane. The story of a poor deranged parish lad. Lamb.
• PRUNER
  Any one of several species of beetles whose larvæ gnaw the branches of trees so as to cause them to fall, especially the American oak pruner , whose larva eats the pith of oak branches, and when mature gnaws a circular furrow on the inside nearly
• RESTRICT
  Restricted.
• DIGESTIBLE
  Capable of being digested.
• CONTRACTIBLE
  Capable of contraction. Small air bladders distable and contractible. Arbuthnot.
• TRACTITE
  A Tractarian.
• DEJECTION
  1. A casting down; depression. Hallywell. 2. The act of humbling or abasing one's self. Adoration implies submission and dejection. Bp. Pearson. 3. Lowness of spirits occasioned by grief or misfortune; mental depression; melancholy. What besides,
• INTRACTABILITY
  The quality of being intractable; intractableness. Bp. Hurd.
• SUPREMITY
  Supremacy. Fuller.
• DEJECTORY
  1. Having power, or tending, to cast down. 2. Promoting evacuations by stool. Ferrand.
• INDIGEST
  Crude; unformed; unorganized; undigested. "A chaos rude and indigest." W. Browne. "Monsters and things indigest." Shak.
• REPRUNE
  To prune again or anew. Yet soon reprunes her wing to soar anew. Young.
• REDIMINISH
  To diminish again.
• EREMITE
  A hermit. Thou art my heaven, and I thy eremite. Keats.