distilled
adjective
[ dɪˈstɪld ]
• (of a liquid) having been purified by undergoing heating and condensation.
• "distilled water"
• (of spirits or an essence) produced by distilling.
• "the distilled whisky is filtered through 10 feet of charcoal"
• having been shortened so that only the essential meaning or most important aspects remain.
• "the report is a distilled version of the main accounts"
distil
verb
• purify (a liquid) by heating it so that it vaporizes, then cooling and condensing the vapour and collecting the resulting liquid.
• "they managed to distil a small quantity of water"
• extract the essential meaning or most important aspects of.
• "my travel notes were distilled into a book"
Origin:
late Middle English: from Latin distillare, variant of destillare, from de- ‘down, away’ + stillare (from stilla ‘a drop’).
