boil down
verb- To reduce in volume by boiling. · He boiled the soup down so it wouldn't be so weak.
- To become reduced (to the most central elements or ingredients: to the essence, core, or implication for action). · So what this boils down to is that you still owe me that fifty bucks.
- To reduce (to the most central elements or ingredients: to the essence, core, or implication for action). · My dissertation is 342 pages long, and I'm required to boil it down to a one-page abstract?!
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