Definitions for condenses

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condenses con·dense

Spelling: [kuh n-dens]

IPA: /kənˈdɛns/

Condenses is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 221 anagrams from letters in condenses (cdeennoss).

Definitions for condenses

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 condenses

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

Examples for condenses

Winter condenses me, and makes me lumpish and sober; and then I can read all day long.

It condenses pain into tiny joke pellets, like a mass-immunization that builds tolerance and vigor.

As the vapor rises from the mixture and goes into the worm, it cools and condenses.

It cools and still cools and condenses, but still fiercely glows.

Mr. Stephens, however, condenses Fuentes's account, which is truly wonderful.

Hutchinson condenses it in similar terms, as do Calef and Douglas.

He condenses their volume of steam into a drop of cold water in a moment.

Then the water vapor in it condenses into droplets of water, and these form a cloud.

They will not understand a man who condenses his thoughts into an octavo.

The steam should be supplied to the box just as fast as it condenses, and no faster.