DISTILLED Synonyms: 61 Similar and Opposite Words

distilled

verb

past tense of distill

as in dripped

to fall or let fall in or as if in drops the basement walls distill water every time it rains heavily

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as in filtered

to remove usually visible impurities from distill the water before pouring it in the steam iron

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Recent Examples of distilled It must also be mashed, distilled, and aged in the United States. — Emily Price, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2026 Venezuelan oil, by contrast, is heavy, sour sludge, which can more easily be distilled into asphalt, industrial oils, diesel and jet fuel. — David Goldman, CNN Money, 29 Aug. 2026 This movement is composed of various factions, as Laura Field has distilled in her authoritative work Furious Minds. — Leonard A. Schuette, Foreign Affairs, 25 Aug. 2026 Almost everything on the menu grows, swims, or gets distilled within a few kilometers of the kitchen. — Monica Mendal, Vogue, 10 Aug. 2026 In this case, the whiskey was distilled from January to June of 2015, and aged for a full 11 years in new American oak barrels. — Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 7 Aug. 2026 Viewers, including any lawmakers who may have seen it, are invited into an idealized and privileged environment, where the complexity of the choice to die is aesthetically contained and emotionally distilled. — Vanessa Rampton, STAT, 5 Aug. 2026 After all, what is the nationality of an American model distilled from a Chinese model that was distilled from an American model? — Reed Albergotti, semafor.com, 29 July 2026 His Medite-Grecian approach is distilled across both restaurants here. — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 July 2026

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Nidhi’s neighbor Payal had a cocker spaniel named Lucy, who regularly dripped spots of blood onto the driveway.

— Madhuri Vijay, New Yorker, 16 Aug. 2026
Despite the flow of cold air from the gap in the doorjamb, every first-floor window dripped with condensation.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 11 Aug. 2026

Definition of dripped

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Sunlight bent and filtered through Earth's atmosphere leaks into the shadow, carrying the red-orange glow of every sunrise and sunset around the world.

— Jamie Carter, Space.com, 21 Aug. 2026
The grading process was one of the places where Darlington and colorist Daniel Gill really wanted the image to look grounded and authentic, not polished and Instagram-filtered.

— Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 19 Aug. 2026

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The resulting sauce is glossy enough to spy your reflection in its jet black depths, refined yet powerful with its distinct wallop of deep, earthy flavors.

— Jenn Harris, Los Angeles Times, 27 Aug. 2026
After dipping its toes into beauty, Old Navy has refined its strategy and is gearing up for a nationwide rollout.

— Kathryn Hopkins, Footwear News, 26 Aug. 2026

Definition of refined

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Using specialist skills, the team carefully extracted Purdy and reunited the kitten with her owner.

— Moná Thomas, PEOPLE, 26 Aug. 2026
With the clock racing down to find Joe before she's extracted out of the country to her death, the team launches an assault against an airport hangar.

— David Hookstead OutKick, FOXNews.com, 25 Aug. 2026

Definition of extracted

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During the call, Kress clarified further that the magnitude of memory prices led Nvidia to reset expectations, given the higher prices expected next year, said Kress.

— Amanda Gerut, Fortune, 27 Aug. 2026
Three days after the initial story, a person close to Fields authorized to speak for Fields and his family clarified the player’s view of the lead-up to the altercation.

— Jim Barnes August 26, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 26 Aug. 2026

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