CONDENSE

condense

Verb

  1. To decrease size or volume by concentration toward the essence.
    An abridged dictionary can be further condensed to pocket size.
    Boiling off water condenses a thin sauce into a soupier mixture.
  2. To make more close, compact, or dense; to compress or concentrate.
  3. To transform from a gaseous state into a liquid state via condensation.

Adjective

  1. Condensed; compact; dense.
    The huge condense bodies of planets. — Bentley.


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