| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make pure; draw out something |
| Synonyms: | boil down, brew, clarify, concentrate, condense, cook, cut, cut down, cut to the bone, dribble, drip, drop, evaporate, express, extract, ferment, get to the meat, infuse, precipitate, press, press out, purify, rarefy, rectify, refine, squeeze out, steam, sublimate, trickle, trim, vaporize, volatilize |
| Antonyms: | dirty, pollute |
| Main Entry: | decompose |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | analyze by taking apart |
| Synonyms: | anatomize, atomize, break down, break up, decompound, disintegrate, dissect, dissolve, distill, resolve, separate |
| Antonyms: | combine, join, put together, unite |
| Main Entry: | dribble |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | trickle |
| Synonyms: | distill, drip, drivel, drizzle, drool, drop, fall in drops, leak, ooze, run, salivate, seep, slaver, slobber, spout, squirt, trill, weep |
| Antonyms: | pour |
| Main Entry: | drop |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | fall in globules |
| Synonyms: | bead, bleed, descend, distill, drain, dribble, drip, emanate, hail, leak, ooze, percolate, precipitate, seep, snow, splash, trickle, trill |
| Antonyms: | downpour, pour |
| Main Entry: | educe |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | bring out, elicit |
| Synonyms: | come out, conclude, deduce, derive, develop, distill, drag, draw, draw out, evince, evoke, evolve, excogitate, extort, extract, gain, get, infer, milk, obtain, procure, pull, reason, secure, think out, wrest, wring |
| Main Entry: | express |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | discharge by squeezing or force |
| Synonyms: | crush, dispatch, distill, expel, extract, force out, forward, press out, ship, squeeze out |
| Main Entry: | extract |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | physically remove, draw out |
| Synonyms: | avulse, bring out, catheterize, cull, derive, distill, eke out, elicit, eradicate, evoke, evulse, exact, express, extirpate, extort, extricate, garner, gather, get, glean, obtain, pick up, pluck, press out, pry, pull, reap, secure, select, separate, siphon, squeeze, take, tear, uproot, weed out, withdraw, wrest, wring, yank |
| Antonyms: | add, insert, put in |
| Main Entry: | filter |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | separate to refine; seep through |
| Synonyms: | clarify, clean, distill, drain, dribble, escape, exude, filtrate, leak, metastasize, ooze, osmose, penetrate, percolate, permeate, purify, refine, screen, sieve, sift, soak through, strain, trickle, winnow |
| Antonyms: | collect, combine |
| Main Entry: | refine |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | purify |
| Synonyms: | clarify, cleanse, distill, filter, process, rarefy, strain |
| Antonyms: | corrupt, dirty, pollute |