DISTILLMENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does distillment mean? 

• DISTILLMENT (noun)
  The noun DISTILLMENT has 1 sense:

1. the process of purifying a liquid by boiling it and condensing its vapors

  Familiarity information: DISTILLMENT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DISTILLMENT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The process of purifying a liquid by boiling it and condensing its vapors

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural processes

Synonyms:

distillation; distillment

Hypernyms ("distillment" is a kind of...):

action; activity; natural action; natural process (a process existing in or produced by nature (rather than by the intent of human beings))

Derivation:

distill (undergo the process of distillation)

distill (remove impurities from, increase the concentration of, and separate through the process of distillation)