MEANING
1. Make an account or expression shorter by keeping its essential content.
2. Make a liquid thicker or more concentrated by removing some of its water.
3. Change from a gas or vapor into a liquid, or cause that change.
Use it for
compressing a lengthy argument into a shorter account; combining detailed observations into a compact explanation; reducing repetition without erasing important distinctionsDescribes compression of an account while distinguishing two physical processes. Academic functions: Analysis / Interpretation, Research / Methodology.
Words that belong together
- condense an argument
- condense the findings
- condense into a summary
On the page
The review condenses three competing interpretations into a short account of their shared assumptions.
The editor asks the author to condense the background section without removing the rationale for the comparison.
The process description states that heating condenses the liquid by removing water.
The comparison separates the energy used to condense the product from the energy used to package it.
Water vapor condenses on the cold surface, creating droplets that affect the measurement.
Nearby words
Word forms
- Base
- condense
- Past tense
- condensed
- Past participle
- condensed
- Present participle
- condensing
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- condense
- Present continuous
- am/is/are condensing
- Present perfect
- have/has condensed
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been condensing
- Past
- condensed
- Past continuous
- was/were condensing
- Past perfect
- had condensed
- Past perfect continuous
- had been condensing
- Future
- will condense
- Future continuous
- will be condensing
- Future perfect
- will have condensed
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been condensing
Choose the auxiliary that agrees with your subject. These are constructions of one word, not separate entries.
Usage notes
Verb, transitive or intransitive by sense. Base condense; third-person condenses; past condensed; past participle condensed; present participle condensing. Register: neutral. Commonness: moderately common (qualitative editorial estimate, informed by dictionaries/corpus).
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