boil down to

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If you say that a situation or problem boils down to a particular thing or can be boiled down to a particular thing, you mean that this is the most important or the most basic aspect of it. What they want boils down to just one thing. It is land = amount to
{f} amount to, come down to, result in; reduce by boiling
boil down
To become reduced (to the most central elements or ingredients: to the essence, core, or implication for action)

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

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

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

boil down
{f} diminish via boiling; be reduced to, come down to
boil down
be the essential element; "The proposal boils down to a compromise"
boil down
When you boil down a liquid or food, or when it boils down, it is boiled until there is less of it because some of the water in it has changed into steam or vapour. He boils down red wine and uses what's left = reduce
boil down
be cooked until very little liquid is left; "The sauce should reduce to one cup"
boil down
be cooked until very little liquid is left; "The sauce should reduce to one cup
boil down
cook until very little liquid is left; "The cook reduced the sauce by boiling it for a long time"
boil down to

    Hyphenation

    boil Down to

    Turkish pronunciation

    boyl daun tı

    Pronunciation

    /ˈboil ˈdoun tə/ /ˈbɔɪl ˈdaʊn tə/
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