US /kənˈdɛns/ UK /kənˈdɛns/
verb

Meanings

  1. 1
    verb

    to make denser or more concise; to change from gas to liquid

    He condensed the long report into a single page.

Thesaurus

Synonyms
1 verb · to make denser or more... compressconcentrateabridgecompactshortenthickenreduce
Word family
Derived forms condensationcondensercondensable
Related forms densedensitycondensation

Etymology

From Old French condenser, from Latin condensare ('to make thick, press together'), from com- (intensive) + densare ('to make dense'), from densus ('thick, dense').

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