Remove impurities from, increase the concentration of, and separate through the process of distillation.

synonyms: make pure, purify, sublimate.

Roget 336: render gaseous etc. 334; vaporize, volatilize; distill, sublime; evaporate, exhale, smoke, transpire, emit vapor, fume, reek, steam, fumigate; cohobate^†; finestill^†.    bubble, sparge, effervesce, boil.    ... show more

Roget 348: flow, run; meander; gush, pour, spout, roll, jet, well, issue; drop, drip, dribble, plash, spirtle^†, trill, trickle, distill, percolate; stream, overflow, inundate, deluge, flow over, splash, swash; guggle^†, murmur, babble, bubble, purl, gurgle, sputter, spurt, spray, regurgitate; ooze, flow out etc. (egress) 295.    rain hard, rain in torrents, rain cats and dogs, rain pitchforks; pour with rain, drizzle, spit, set in; mizzle^†.    flow into, fall into, open into, drain into; discharge itself, disembogue^†.    [Cause a flow] pour; pour out etc. (discharge) 297; shower down, irrigate, drench etc. (wet) 337; spill, splash.    [Stop a flow] stanch; dam, up etc. (close) 261; obstruct etc. 706.    ... show more

Roget 295: emerge, emanate, issue; egress; go out of, come out of, move out of, pass out of, pour out of, flow out of; pass out of, evacuate.    exude, transude; leak, run through, out through; percolate, transcolate^†; egurgitate^†; strain, distill; perspire, sweat, drain, ooze; filter, filtrate; dribble, gush, spout, flow out; well, well out; pour, trickle, etc. (water in motion) 348; effuse, extravasate [Med.], disembogue^†, discharge itself, debouch; come forth, break forth; burst out, burst through; find vent; escape etc. 671.    ... show more

Dutch: zuiveren, sublimeren

Undergo the process of distillation.

synonym: distil.

Extract by the process of distillation:
— Distill the essence of this compound.

synonyms: distil, extract.

Dutch: destilleren, distilleren, stoken

Undergo condensation; change from a gaseous to a liquid state and fall in drops:
— The acid distills at a specific temperature.

synonyms: condense, distil.

Dutch: neerslaan, condenseren

Give off (a liquid):
— The doctor distilled a few drops of disinfectant onto the wound.

synonym: distil.