decocted

verb

past tense of decoct
as in distilled

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  1. distilled
  2. purified
  3. reduced
  4. refined
  5. purged
  6. cleaned
  7. clarified
  8. cleansed
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  • Harvest plate at the Deer and the Dove This offers the season’s best distilled onto one plate.
    — Angela Hansberger, AJC.com, 6 Sep. 2026
  • The Balvenie Eighty-Eight-Year-Old was distilled on March 5, 1931, and spent its entire maturation lifespan in a European oak sherry butt from Jerez, Spain (cask #239).
    — Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 1 Sep. 2026
Definition of distilled
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  • But what if the water and nutrients could be purified from whey permeate and used for other purposes?
    — Idaho Statesman, Idaho Statesman, 17 Aug. 2026
  • Once hydrogen is flowing from the ground, how will the gas be purified?
    — IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 11 Aug. 2026
Definition of purified
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  • Brent crude oil prices paused in early trading on Tuesday after gaining in the previous session following a drone attack on an oil pipeline pumping station in Russia that reduced flows from Kazakhstan.
    — Leonie Kidd, CNBC, 9 Sep. 2026
  • Promise a rebate to every taxpayer when the size and cost of government is reduced.
    — Cal Thomas, Arkansas Online, 8 Sep. 2026
Definition of reduced
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  • Under tolling agreements, third parties deliver raw black mass to the site to be refined for a processing fee.
    — Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 2 Sep. 2026
  • Reviewers agree that the design looks refined, with leather that feels more expensive than its approachable price point suggests.
    — Yelena Moroz Alpert, Architectural Digest, 2 Sep. 2026
Definition of refined
Verb
  • Black and female military officers have been purged or denied promotion.
    — Charles Finch, The Atlantic, 28 Aug. 2026
  • Immigration courts are backed up and judges have been purged.
    — Shimon Prokupecz, CNN Money, 27 Aug. 2026
Definition of purged
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  • Instead of simply reducing the amount of water used in a process, researchers are investigating whether the same water can be cleaned and cycled back into production.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 8 Sep. 2026
  • Really, as long as the boots are leather and in good shape, they can typically be conditioned and cleaned.
    — Ashley Poskin, Martha Stewart, 6 Sep. 2026
Definition of cleaned
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  • Rushworth’s departure has clarified the goalkeeper situation at Brighton.
    — Andy Naylor, New York Times, 9 Sep. 2026
  • These ads seem to violate federal child pornography laws, since the Justice Department has clarified that AI CSAM is just as harmful as CSAM.
    — Ashley Belanger, ArsTechnica, 8 Sep. 2026
Definition of clarified
Verb
  • A lot happened while Rohan and I were on vacation, but the one thing still on my mind — freshly cleansed by Hudson Valley air — is Kevin Warsh’s speech in Jackson Hole.
    — Liz Hoffman, semafor.com, 1 Sep. 2026
  • What lies before us is not a world cleansed of fraud, but a world in which the speed of both deception and defense keeps rising, so that the responsibility shared between institutions and individuals grows more important.
    — Dennis-Kenji Kipker, Forbes.com, 22 July 2026
Definition of cleansed
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