adj
distilled
dih-STIHLD
adj
1
Purified or concentrated through the process of distillation.
"The recipe calls for distilled water."
"This is distilled from years of hard-won experience."
How to Use Distilled
Learner’s notesIn plain EnglishPurified through distillation, or, figuratively, boiled down to its essential form.
Common pairings
distilled water
distilled spirits
distilled wisdom
Word Forms
more distilled comparative, most distilled superlative
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