BOIL DOWN

v. 1. To boil away some of the water from; make less by boiling. She boiled down the maple sap to a thick syrup. The fruit juice boiled down until it was almost not good for jelly. 2. To reduce the length of; cut down; shorten. The reporter boiled the story down to half the original length. 3. To reduce itself to; come down to; be briefly or basically. The whole discussion boils down to the question of whether the government should fix prices.