boil down
verbEtymology
As an allusion to the technique of reduction or decreasing liquid content of food by boiling much of its water off.
Definitions
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 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.
- For England, everything now boils down to what happens against Poland on Tuesday.
To reduce (to the most central elements or ingredients
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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