Synonyms of distilling

distilling

verb

present participle of distill

1

as in dripping

to fall or let fall in or as if in drops

the basement walls distill water every time it rains heavily

Synonyms & Similar Words

• dripping
• flowing
• pouring
• trickling
• dropping
• sprinkling
• dribbling
• streaming
• rolling
• rippling
• seeping
• running
• bleeding
• weeping
• oozing
• discharging
• drizzling
• riffling
• exuding
• cascading
• guttering

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• gushing
• spouting
• spurting

2

as in filtering

to remove usually visible impurities from

distill the water before pouring it in the steam iron

Synonyms & Similar Words

• filtering
• clarifying
• refining
• extracting
• cleaning
• fining
• processing
• purifying
• washing
• clearing
• purging
• sifting
• garbling
• rectifying
• cleansing
• leaching
• decontaminating
• sieving
• screening
• disinfecting
• bolting
• elutriating
• sanitizing

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• contaminating
• clouding
• dulling
• muddying
• polluting
• soiling
• dirtying
• tainting
• defiling
• fouling
• sullying
• besmirching
• begriming

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of distilling

The Supreme Court agreed on Monday to consider whether Congress had the constitutional authority to impose a ban on distilling spirits in private homes more than 150 years ago. — Michael Kunzelman, Fortune, 19 Oct. 2026

Pittol is an ice cream wizard, capable of distilling the essence of nearly any flavor into frozen dessert form. — Jenn Harris, Los Angeles Times, 15 Oct. 2026

Artificial intelligence developers have borrowed the word to describe boiling down a big AI model into a smaller one—and lately the biggest AI companies say that rivals have been distilling like bootleggers. — Peter Hall, Scientific American, 7 Oct. 2026

Taking all of that and then distilling it in a way that was still beautiful and also sensual was really something that was discussed a lot. — Lexy Perez, HollywoodReporter, 21 Sep. 2026

Using a technique called principal component analysis, the team examined subtle brightness changes taking place as SIMP 0136 rotated, distilling down a complicated dataset into a few patterns responsible for most of the variation. — Stefanie Waldek, Space.com, 21 Sep. 2026

But what sets him apart is the sheer breadth of those roots and his gift for distilling them into his own expression. — Billboard Japan, Billboard, 18 Sep. 2026

Revival Stillworks makes equipment for distilling liquor like vodka, agave and whisky and helps design spaces for producing craft spirits from the company's base on Vancouver Island, less than 20 miles from Washington state's San Juan Island. — ABC News, 15 Sep. 2026

The United States has now named six Chinese AI firms accused of waging industrial-scale attacks distilling US frontier AI model capabilities and perhaps sparing billions in Chinese development costs. — Ashley Belanger, ArsTechnica, 9 Sep. 2026