to become smaller in quantity after cooking because some of the liquid has turned to gas, or to make something do this
to make something such as a piece of writing shorter by giving only the basic, most important facts
Boil the meat juices down to make a thick sauce.
I wondered how forty years of life could suddenly boil down to a lesson in triage.
Whole pages of information get boiled down to one paragraph in the paper.
`You must realise that, in your predicament, when you have too much fear, even the infinite outcomes boil down to two basic ones.
boils down
boiling down
boiled down
There is no origin for this phrasal verb
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