| Main Entry: | distill |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make pure; draw out something |
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boil down, brew, clarify, concentrate, condense, cook, cut, cut down, cut to the bone, dribble, drip, drop, evaporate, express, extract, ferment, get to the meat, infuse, precipitate, press, press out, purify, rarefy, rectify, refine, squeeze out, steam, sublimate, trickle, trim, vaporize, volatilize |
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dirty, pollute |
| Main Entry: | short |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | abridged |
Synonyms: |
abbreviate, abbreviated, aphoristic, bare, boiled down, breviloquent, brief, compendiary, compendious, compressed, concise, condensed, curtailed, curtate, cut short, cut to the bone, decreased, decurtate, diminished, epigrammatic, fleeting, in a nutshell, laconic, lessened, little, momentary, not protracted, pithy, pointed, precise, sententious, short and sweet, short-lived, short-term, shortened, succinct, summarized, summary, terse, undersized, unprolonged, unsustained |
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large, lengthy, long, unabridged |
| Main Entry: | shorten |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | diminish, decrease |
Synonyms: |
abbreviate, abridge, blue pencil, bob, boil down, chop, clip, compress, condense, contract, curtail, cut, cut back, cut down, cut to the bone, dock, edit, elide, excerpt, lessen, lop, make a long story short, minimize, put in a nutshell, reduce, retrench, shrink, slash, snip, trim |
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amplify, elongate, enlarge, grow, increase, lengthen |
| Main Entry: | succinct |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | brief, to the point |
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blunt, boiled down, breviloquent, brusque, compact, compendiary, compendious, concise, condensed, curt, cut to the bone, in a nutshell, in few words, laconic, pithy, short, summary, terse |
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lengthy, long-winded, wordy |
| Main Entry: | terse |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | brief, short |
Synonyms: |
abrupt, aphoristic, boiled down, breviloquent, brusque, clear-cut, clipped, close, compact, compendiary, compendious, concise, condensed, crisp, cryptic, curt, cut to the bone, elliptical, epigrammatic, exact, gnomic, in a nutshell, incisive, laconic, lean, neat, pithy, pointed, precise, sententious, short and sweet, snappy, succinct, summary, taut, to the point, trenchant |
| Notes: | use terse to characterize brevity or succinctness of expression in a person; concise is used to characterize this in a message |
Antonyms: |
lengthy, long-winded, prolix, wordy |
| Main Entry: | short |
| Part of Speech: | adjective, adverb |
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little, short, brachyskelic, brief, commatic, compact, compendious, concise, curt, curtailed of its fair proportion, dumpy, fubsy, improcerous, oblate, pug, runtish, scrimp, shorn, short by, short-waisted, spuddy, squab, squabbish, squabby, squat, stubbed, stubby, stumpy, summary, thickset, undersized
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| Main Entry: | terse |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
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