Processes
Synonyms for distill
The synonym for distill recorded in this bank is encapsulate, in the sense "to extract and condense the essential meaning from something". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.
The synonym for distill
- encapsulateverb, in the sense "to extract and condense the essential meaning from something"
A single pair, which is what a single sense earns. Words further down the page are near misses and are not synonyms for distill.
to extract and condense the essential meaning from something
Her job was to distill the committee's lengthy report into a single page.
The true synonym
encapsulate
Same sentence, swapped: Her job was to encapsulate the committee's lengthy report into a single page.
Close but different
These three are the other tiles the game puts on screen for this sense, and the note above says why the closest of them fails. None is a synonym for distill in the sentence quoted.
- expand
- dilute
- annotate
Where distill turns up in the game
distill is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 3, Ridgeline. It is never used as a wrong tile elsewhere in the bank, so every board it appears on is a board it can win.
Play distill
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so distill reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Closest first: other processes words at Ridgeline, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
A reason under every answer, not just a right answer
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. distill carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.