• IPA: /kənˈdɛns/

condense (condenses, present participle condensing; past and past participle condensed)

1. (transitive) To concentrate toward the essence by making more close, compact, or dense, thereby decreasing size or volume.

   Synonyms: thicken, simplify, reduce, Thesaurus:compress

   Antonyms: dilute

   An abridged dictionary can be further condensed to pocket size.

   Boiling off water condenses a thin sauce into a soupier mixture.

   • 1667, John Milton, “Book 1”, in Paradise Lost. A Poem Written in Ten Books, London: Printed [by Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […] [a]nd by Robert Boulter […] [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], OCLC 228722708 ↗; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: The Text Exactly Reproduced from the First Edition of 1667: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554 ↗:

     In what shape they choose, / Dilated or condensed, bright or obscure.

   • The secret course pursued at Brussels and at Madrid may be condensed into the usual formula, dissimulation, procrastination, and again dissimulation.

2. (transitive, chemistry) To transform from a gaseous state into a liquid state via condensation.
3. (intransitive, chemistry) To be transformed from a gaseous state into a liquid state.

   Water condenses on the window on cold days because of the warm air inside.

• condensation

• French: condenser
• German: kondensieren, verkleinern
• Italian: condensare
• Russian: сгуща́ть
• Spanish: condensar

• French: condenser
• German: kondensieren
• Italian: condensare
• Portuguese: condensar
• Russian: конденси́ровать
• Spanish: condensar

• French: se condenser
• German: kondensieren
• Italian: condensarsi
• Portuguese: condensar-se
• Russian: конденси́роваться
• Spanish: condensarse

condense

1. (archaic) Condensed; compact; dense.

   • The huge condense bodies of planets.