DISTILLING Synonyms: 60 Similar and Opposite Words

distilling

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present participle of distill

as in dripping

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 filtering

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

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Recent Examples of distilling Additionally, Anthropic and OpenAI have both publicly accused Chinese labs of distilling their models. —

Mark Minevich, Fortune, 12 Mar. 2026 Commissioners praised Encinitas Brewing Company’s proposal to open a restaurant with beer-brewing and craft-distilling production capabilities in the Plaza Encinitas Ranch shopping center. —

Barbara Henry, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Mar. 2026 Chris Pratt stars as an ordinary LEGO guy who finds himself on an extraordinary journey in a film that’s really about the power of the imagination, distilling the creative joy of playing with LEGOs into a captivating story. —

Brian Tallerico, Vulture, 5 Mar. 2026 The accusations come after Anthropic’s rival OpenAI made similar allegations earlier this month that DeepSeek and other Chinese AI companies are illegally distilling its ChatGPT models over the past year, in a memo sent to the US House Select Committee on China. —

John Liu, CNN Money, 24 Feb. 2026 Those concerts transformed the group dynamic, thoroughly integrating Lewis into the Messthetics and distilling a chemistry that feels natural and unforced. —

Stephen Thomas Erlewine, Pitchfork, 19 Feb. 2026 Meanwhile, garlic oil is produced by distilling raw garlic and diluting it in vegetable oil. —

Bestreviews, Mercury News, 16 Feb. 2026 This marks the eighth study of the impact of Kentucky’s distilling industry on the state economy since 2009. —

Maggie Menderski, Louisville Courier Journal, 2 Feb. 2026 In most cases, the record holders agree to be interviewed, distilling years of experience into fairly shallow platitudes — pithy advice Green finds understandably unsatisfying. —

Peter Debruge, Variety, 23 Jan. 2026

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Finally, the riders entered a canopy of oaks dripping Spanish moss that marked the park entrance.

— Molly Hennessy-Fiske, Washington Post, 19 Mar. 2026
With the games dripping out, one at a time, the entire planet is focused on a single match while it is being played, all the eyes of the world resting on twenty-two elite athletes acting out a sporting telenovela, living making decisions without a script, under conditions of hysterical pressure.

— Jeffrey Pierre, NPR, 17 Mar. 2026