boil down
Verb
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Verb
- (transitive and intransitive) Used other than with a figurative or idiomatic meaning: see boil, down
- He boiled the soup down so it wouldn't be so weak.
- (intransitive) 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.
- 2013, Daniel Taylor, Andros Townsend calms England's nerves in taming of Montenegro (in The Guardian, 11 October 2013)
- For England, everything now boils down to what happens against Poland on Tuesday.
- (transitive) 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?!
- (become reduced) come down to
- Portuguese: resumir-se
- Spanish: resumirse
- Portuguese: condensar, resumir, simplificar
- Spanish: reducir
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