boil down
verb
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
- Direction
- arrow points to the broader concept
- dashed outline: no word in this language
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Senses
Sense 1 verb
be the essential element
The proposal boils down to a compromise
Types & categories
- become hypernym
Related & opposite
- reducible derivation
Sense 2 verb
be cooked until very little liquid is left
The sauce should reduce to one cup
Types & categories
- decrease hypernym
Related & opposite
- concentration derivation
- concentration derivation
- concentrate derivation
- cooking domain topic
Sense 3 verb
cook until very little liquid is left
The cook reduced the sauce by boiling it for a long time
Types & categories
- minify hypernym
Related & opposite
- concentration derivation
- concentration derivation
- concentrate derivation
- cooking domain topic
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | reducible |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | become |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | concentration |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | concentration |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | concentrate |
| 2 | domain topic | Related & opposite | cooking |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | decrease |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | concentration |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | concentration |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | concentrate |
| 3 | domain topic | Related & opposite | cooking |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | minify |