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单词 condense
释义 condense
 /keuhn dens"/,  v.  , condensed, condensing.
  v.t.  
  1. to make more dense or compact; reduce the volume or extent of; concentrate.
  2. to reduce to a shorter form; abridge: Condense your answer into a few words.
  3. to reduce to another and denser form, as a gas or vapor to a liquid or solid state.
  v.i.  
  4. to become denser or more compact or concentrated.
  5. to reduce a book, speech, statement, or the like, to a shorter form.
  6. to become liquid or solid, as a gas or vapor: The steam condensed into droplets.
 [1475-85; < MF condenser < L condensare, equiv. to con- CON- + densare to thicken, v. deriv. of densus DENSE]
 Syn. 1. compress, consolidate. 2. digest, epitomize, abstract, abbreviate. See contract.
 Ant. 1. expand.
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