Antonyms for boil downboil down

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1. boil downverb

   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.

   Synonyms:
   come down to

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1. boil down

   Antonyms:
   amplify, augment, develop, dilate, enlarge, expand, expatiate, extend, increase, unfold, widen

   Synonyms:
   abbreviate, abridge, amputate, condense, curtail, cut down, epitomize, reduce, retrench, sum up, summarize

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1. reduce, come down, boil downverb

   be the essential element

   "The proposal boils down to a compromise"

   Synonyms:
   bring down, decoct, slim down, quash, foreshorten, trim down, slim, go down, cut, precipitate, trim back, descend, trim, slenderize, cut back, cut down, subjugate, thin out, shrink, sicken, fall, abridge, come down, contract, melt off, subdue, scale down, concentrate, deoxidize, shorten, dilute, thin, reduce, deoxidise, abbreviate, keep down, lose weight, repress, tighten

2. boil down, reduce, decoct, concentrateverb

   be cooked until very little liquid is left

   "The sauce should reduce to one cup"

   Synonyms:
   digest, bring down, decoct, pore, slim down, quash, foreshorten, cut back, trim down, rivet, thin out, center, focus, centralise, cut, trim back, trim, slenderize, cut down, tighten, subjugate, shrink, abridge, reduce, condense, contract, melt off, subdue, scale down, centre, concentrate, deoxidize, shorten, dilute, slim, thin, come down, centralize, deoxidise, abbreviate, keep down, lose weight, repress

3. reduce, boil down, concentrateverb

   cook until very little liquid is left

   "The cook reduced the sauce by boiling it for a long time"

   Synonyms:
   digest, bring down, decoct, pore, slim down, quash, foreshorten, trim down, rivet, slim, center, focus, centralise, cut, trim back, trim, slenderize, cut back, cut down, subjugate, thin out, shrink, abridge, come down, condense, contract, melt off, subdue, scale down, centre, concentrate, deoxidize, shorten, dilute, thin, reduce, centralize, deoxidise, abbreviate, keep down, lose weight, repress, tighten

How to use boil down in a sentence?

1. Prime Minister David Cameron:

   You can boil down all of my negotiations to one word: flexibility. Is this organization flexible enough to make sure that countries inside the eurozone can grow and succeed, and countries outside the eurozone like Britain can find what they need as well, if it's flexible enough, we'll stay. If it's not flexible enough we'll have to ask ourselves a very profound question: is this organization for us?

2. Thomas Sowell:

   The question is not what anybody deserves. The question is who is to take on the God-like role of deciding what everybody else deserves. You can talk about 'social justice' all you want. But what death taxes boil down to is letting politicians take money from widows and orphans to pay for goodies that they will hand out to others, in order to buy votes to get re-elected. That is not social justice or any other kind of justice.

3. Uzo Asonye:

   All of these charges boil down to one simple issue : that Paul Manafort lied, paul Manafort placed Paul Manafort and Paul Manafort money over the law.

4. Cal Jillson:

   What these primaries really boil down to is one issue: Trump versus anti-Trump, there is relatively little talk about the issues for either party. It’s a race to the margins. Democrats are all against the president, while with Republicans it’s about staying close to Trump, and whether that hurts or helps them.

5. Donald Trump:

   I really believe that the vote that voters make on Nov. 6 is going to boil down to if they vote for a Republican member of the House of Representatives, they're going to vote against impeachment, and if they vote for a Democratic member of the House of Representatives or a challenger, they're voting for impeachment, this is all about impeachment. It always has been.

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