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distillation

Best crossword clue

"Purifying by heat"

12 letters · collected on this word page

12 lettersPronunciation /dɪstɪˈleɪʃən/Part of speech nounSorted adiiillnosttStarts with DEnds with N1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. the process of purifying a liquid by boiling it and condensing its vapors

Word origin

From Middle English distillacioun, from Anglo-Norman distillacioun, from Latin distīllātiōnem, accusative of distīllātiō.

Used in a sentence

  • to be stopped in, like a strong distillation, with stinking / clothes that fretted in their own grease.
  • Then, were not summer's distillation left, A liquid prisoner pent in walls of glass […]
  • Distillation is often used to train new systems. If a company takes data from proprietary technology, the practice may be legally problematic. But it is often allowed by open source technologies.

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