condense

Other forms of condense

past tense

condensed·

present participle

condensing·

third person

condenses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about condense

What does condense mean?

condense means "undergo condensation; change from a gaseous to a liquid state and fall in drops". That is the primary sense; the word has 7 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in condense?

condense has 2 syllables: con-dense. The stress falls on "dense". In IPA it is /kənˈdɛns/.

What is another word for condense?

Close synonyms include distill, distil, digest, concentrate, concentrate. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is condense a common word?

condense is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with condense?

1 word rhymes with condense. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.