condense
/kənˈdɛns/ verb C1- To concentrate toward the essence by making more close, compact, or dense, thereby decreasing size or volume. · An abridged dictionary can be further condensed to pocket size.· Boiling off water condenses a thin sauce into a soupier mixture.
- To transform from a gaseous state into a liquid state via condensation.
- To be transformed from a gaseous state into a liquid state. · Water condenses on the window on cold days because of the warm air inside.
He/she/it condenses · Past condensed · Past participle condensed · -ing form condensing
Verb forms
- Base form
- condense
- He/she/it
- condenses
- Past
- condensed
- Past participle
- condensed
- -ing form
- condensing
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But when, for the fourth time, after pushing back our chairs from breakfast we saw the greasy, heavy brown swirl still drifting past us and condensing in oily drops upon the window-panes, my comrade’s impatient and active nature could endure this drab existence no longer.
A large curved retort was boiling furiously in the bluish flame of a Bunsen burner, and the distilled drops were condensing into a two-litre measure.
Of these the first and second were extremely condensed, while the last is, as I shall now show, an absolute perversion of the facts.
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