to condense
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4.2
- verb
- /kənˈdɛns/
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resumir
- The editor asked the author to condense the lengthy manuscript into a more digestible format.
- a condensed version
- condensed form
- condense information
Now try to combine that and condense it even further down.
- Now try to combine that and condense it even further down.
- So it allows you to condense things very nicely and succinctly.
- I love the news and I love storytelling and I love taking complex stories and condensing them into digestible bits.
- And I can show you the texts that originally told us of this power and how they were edited and condensed and rearranged.
- So a better problem to have is how can I condense this into this?
- They were these these like classic books And condensed, Yes, condensed, Right.
- I got to write that book, even though Steve has condensed it very, very small or it has got a lot in.
Examples
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I can condense that to three words.
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How can you condense all of that to a handful of words?
Academic text (2011) -
So I tried to like condense them into like this.
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So I really need to condense this down a lot.
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Welcome to our little show where we take and condense the best books out there.
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When it comes time to prepare for final exam, you should condense this brief even further.
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We are hard-pressed for space, so I have tried to condense it somewhat.
Academic text (1990) -
So now basically what I'm doing is I'm taking this graph and I am condensing it from here to here.
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In reporting to Inspector Nujoma, I condensed all I'd learned into one sentence.
Fiction book (1991) -
During each hour-long episode, millions of viewers witness a condensed form of Frost's two-week intervention with a family in trouble.
Academic text (2013)
Synonyms
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3.0
Present the main points of a text in a short, clear way
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2.8
To make something simpler by cutting out details
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3.6
Leave out small or less important information when explaining something
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2.3
Make something shorter, for example an article, skirt, or route
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6.1
Express the main idea in a few words
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3.6
To make something shorter while keeping the important parts
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4.4
Make something smaller by removing parts you do not need
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4.1
To make long information shorter by giving its main points
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4.0
To make writing or speech shorter and clearer
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8.2
To put ideas or information into a short summary
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6.4
To give a short summary of the main points
To make a long text shorter by giving its main points
Make a book, play, or speech shorter by removing parts while keeping the main idea
To make something shorter in time or content
Antonyms
How Concise
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word condense comes from Latin parts con- 'together' and densus 'thick', the same root as the English word dense. So to condense writing is to bring ideas 'together' and make the text more 'dense', meaning shorter and more compact.