DISTIL

( -ll-), US usually, ANZ also distill [verb] [T] - to heat (a liquid) until it changes to a gas and then make it liquid again by coolingSea water can be distilled (= purified using this method) to produce drinking water.Some strong alcoholic drinks such as whisky are made by distilling.(figurative) I have distilled (= reduced to the most important parts) my eighty page report into five basic recommendations.