1 ~ (sth) (into sth) to change from a gas into a liquid; to make a gas change into a liquid:
Steam condenses into water when it cools. * [VN] The steam was condensed rapidly by injecting cold water into the cylinder.
2 if a liquid condenses or you condense it, it becomes thicker and stronger because it has lost some of its water:
[VN] Condense the soup by boiling it for several minutes. [also V]
3 [VN] ~ sth (into sth) to put sth such as a piece of writing into fewer words; to put a lot of information into a small space:
The article was condensed into just two pages. * The author has condensed a great deal of material into just 100 pages.
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Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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Is condense a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, condense is tagged as verb.
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