Definitions for condense

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condense con·dense

Spelling: [kuh n-dens]

IPA: /kənˈdɛns/

Condense is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 183 anagrams from letters in condense (cdeennos).

Definitions for condense

verb (used with object)

1. to make more dense or compact; reduce the volume or extent of; concentrate.
2. to reduce to a shorter form; abridge:
3. to reduce to another and denser form, as a gas or vapor to a liquid or solid state.

verb (used without object)

1. to become denser or more compact or concentrated.
2. to reduce a book, speech, statement, or the like, to a shorter form.
3. to become liquid or solid, as a gas or vapor:

Origin of condense

1475-85; Middle French condenser Latin condēnsāre, equivalent to con- con- + dēnsāre to thicken, verbal derivative of dēnsus dense

Examples for condense

They get an actor on the schedule at their budgets where they try to condense roles.

What I have done is to condense some of that vapor into a solid.

It is hard to condense the social habits of peoples into a few dozen pages.

Yet in order to condense the steam there must be a cooling of the vessel.

In six months we could raise food—if we had power to condense moisture.

I cannot condense the horror of either the Bosnian war or the Rwandan genocide in the length of this column.

We will condense, for the benefit of the reader, the information of Mr. Leverton.

She speaks in thick paragraphs that her staffers probably wish they could condense and sharpen at times.

In that brief time I must condense all that another man should take months to say to you.

We must, however, condense the matter, which was very voluminous.