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verb

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1. To reduce in volume by boiling.

   Example: He boiled the soup down so it wouldn't be so weak.

2. To become reduced (to the most central elements or ingredients: to the essence, core or implication for action).

   Example: So what this boils down to is that you still owe me that fifty bucks.

3. To reduce (to the most central elements or ingredients: to the essence, core or implication for action).

   Example: My dissertation is 342 pages long, and I'm required to boil it down to a one-page abstract?!