DISTIL Synonyms: 60 Similar and Opposite Words

distill

verb

di-ˈstil

variants also distil

Definition of distill

as in to drip

to fall or let fall in or as if in drops the basement walls distill water every time it rains heavily

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as in to filter

to remove usually visible impurities from distill the water before pouring it in the steam iron

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Recent Examples of distill Viewers, including any lawmakers who may have seen it, are invited into an idealized and privileged environment, where the complexity of the choice to die is aesthetically contained and emotionally distilled. — Vanessa Rampton, STAT, 5 Aug. 2026 Sometimes, though, distilling the best from a simple ingredient can be a long labor of love. — Simon Willis, Travel + Leisure, 4 Aug. 2026 By distilling commander’s intent through intuitive, natural language commands, Anura scales the Soldier-to-robot ratio, reduces cognitive burden, accelerates training timelines, and enables heads-up, hands-free operation. — Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 1 Aug. 2026 Over his 25 years behind the anchor desk at WABC-TV Eyewitness News, the veteran journalist had built a career distilling the details of the most complicated stories with clarity and precision. — Dave Quinn, PEOPLE, 29 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for distill

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Nidhi’s neighbor Payal had a cocker spaniel named Lucy, who regularly dripped spots of blood onto the driveway.

— Madhuri Vijay, New Yorker, 16 Aug. 2026
With blood dripping down her face, Vipress was able to power through.

— Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 16 Aug. 2026

Definition of drip

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Inuspheresis—colloquially known as blood washing—is the newest therapy available at Lanserhof Tegernsee, selected for its ability to filter a wide range of unwanted substances from your plasma.

— Justin Fenner, Robb Report, 15 Aug. 2026
These include tenocytes [the primary component of tendons]; the cells that wrap around blood vessels and stabilize the circulatory system; the smooth muscle cells of the colon; and kidney epithelial cells, which filter toxins from the blood.

— Ingrid Wickelgren, Quanta Magazine, 14 Aug. 2026

Definition of filter

Verb

Tributes to Panettiere pour in from past colleagues, including Viola Davis, Kim Cattrall and Rosie O’Donnell — along with many others.

— Julianna Bragg, CNN Money, 22 Aug. 2026
Griffin has poured tens of millions of dollars into GOP congressional and Senate races over the years.

— Lorraine Ali, Los Angeles Times, 21 Aug. 2026

Definition of pour

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Open Doors helped clarify a lot of things, so the next step is to sit with that and push the project into a solid draft.

— Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 16 Aug. 2026
District leaders used them to rethink instruction, align classroom practice with system supports, build capacity among school supervisors and principals, and clarify what students should know and be able to do.

— Michael Casserly, Chicago Tribune, 16 Aug. 2026

Definition of clarify

Verb

According to regulators, the investments all flowed through Spaventa.

— Amanda Gerut, Fortune, 15 Aug. 2026
Using the streams as indicators of the groundwater flowing beneath them, Campbell is building a model to identify the best potential sites in Idaho for a subsurface dam.

— Idaho Statesman, Idaho Statesman, 15 Aug. 2026

Definition of flow

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No one is as refined as the Ohio State star, but Coleman’s potential as a 6-foot-3, 210-pound, do-everything game-wrecker is tantalizing.

— Nick Baumgardner, New York Times, 19 Aug. 2026
Diehl calls it one of the oldest tricks in styling, the pairing of something refined against something plain.

— Pooja Mistry, Forbes.com, 19 Aug. 2026

Definition of refine

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However, measures in place to limit the spread, such as regular handwashing and social distancing, are not followed at the artisanal mining sites, where work to extract gold is done by workers using basic hand tools like shovels and pans.

— ABC News, ABC News, 19 Aug. 2026
Hoffman was born in Brooklyn, one of 10 children in an ultra-Orthodox Jewish community, and raised in Montreal after her Canadian mother extracted the family.

— Elisabeth Garber-Paul, Rolling Stone, 18 Aug. 2026

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