DISTILLED Synonyms: 61 Similar and Opposite Words

distilled

verb

past tense of distill

as in dripped

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 filtered

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

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Recent Examples of distilled The new reposado was made from agave pinas that were cooked in a combination of autoclaves and brick ovens before being double-distilled in copper and stainless-steel stills. — Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 25 Sep. 2026 The vapors that had risen from warm bodies in the pews would have carried syllables mixed with candle-soot, distilled as condensation on the chapel windows. — Literary Hub, 22 Sep. 2026 Populism, distilled from the witches’ brew of 1893, only attained its full strength closer to the end of the century. — J. B. MacKinnon, Harpers Magazine, 22 Sep. 2026 Another worker, using the handle Xiexiaoya, posted on RedNote, China’s Instagram, in June that the prospect of being distilled kept her awake at night. — Michael Schuman, The Atlantic, 19 Sep. 2026 Anthropic has accused Chinese companies such as Moonshot AI, DeepSeek, and MiniMax of the practice, while OpenAI believes DeepSeek's V3 and R1 model architectures were distilled from its own GPT-4 and GPT-4o models. — Kate Rooney,isabel O'Brien, CNBC, 11 Sep. 2026 Crown Royal, which is distilled and matured in Manitoba, Canada, is shipped in large containers to bottling facilities in the United States for sale on this side of the border, MarketWatch reported. — Fernando Cervantes Jr, USA Today, 10 Sep. 2026 All of which are distilled into 107 end-to-end commerce tasks across seven categories and four levels of autonomy. — Arthur Zaczkiewicz, Footwear News, 9 Sep. 2026 In July, Kratsios declared on X that Moonshot had distilled Anthropic’s advanced Fable model to develop its Kimi K3 system. — Kevin Collier, NBC news, 8 Sep. 2026

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The whole room dripped in a deep purple hue, really leaning into its name.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 26 Aug. 2026
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

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Every Washington Nationals player filtered into the news conference room at Nationals Park on Friday afternoon, taking their seats among Cade Cavalli’s family, team ownership and staff members.

— Danielle Allentuck, Washington Post, 26 Sep. 2026
The fish release ammonia through waste, which is filtered to remove solids, and what’s left is nitrates that are pumped into the pond, where the plants absorb them and grow.

— Shannon Tyler, Idaho Statesman, 24 Sep. 2026

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Brooke poured her heart out in the wake of here father’s death, which was later determined to be caused by a heart attack.

— Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 24 Sep. 2026
Kobe poured his cash into the sports drink startup, ultimately netting an astronomical $444 million return when Coca-Cola acquired the brand and cementing the basketball icon as a legitimate venture capital heavyweight.

— Alejandro Avila OutKick, FOXNews.com, 23 Sep. 2026

Definition of poured

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Material from both sides of this line flowed together to assemble the parent objects of Bennu, Ryugu and CI chondrites, with ice acting like glue to bond the fine dust particles together.

— Keith Cooper, Space.com, 27 Sep. 2026
Soon after the war started, Iran blocked the Strait of Hormuz, a key waterway through which some 20% of the world’s oil flowed before the conflict, sending shock waves through the world economy.

— Freddie Clayton, NBC news, 26 Sep. 2026

Definition of flowed

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Three of the four are co-ferments, which means the beans are put in anaerobic tanks, where oxygen is extracted and fruit is added.

— Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 21 Sep. 2026
Trump has extracted multi-million settlements from ABC and CBS after suing them over their reporting.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 18 Sep. 2026

Definition of extracted

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But in subsequent updates to its NHS study, Grail clarified that Stage IV cancer diagnoses (not combined with Stage III) decreased over its three-year study period, suggesting tests may have shifted cancer diagnosis to earlier stages.

— Yuki Noguchi, NPR, 23 Sep. 2026
This aspect of nature was intuited by Galileo some four centuries ago, and clarified in depth by the subsequent history of mechanics.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 21 Sep. 2026

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