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decoct
English
Etymology
From Latin decoqu? (“I boil down”), from de- + coqu? (“I cook”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /d??k?kt/
- (General American) IPA(key): /d??k?kt/
Verb
decoct (third-person singular simple present decocts, present participle decocting, simple past and past participle decocted)
- (cooking) To make an infusion.
- (cooking) To reduce, or concentrate by boiling down.
- 1831, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Romance and Reality, Volume 2, page 54
- Her ambition had hitherto been confined to being the best of wives,—so she scolded the servants—opened no book but her book of receipts—made soup without meat—decocted cowslips, parsneps, currants, and gooseberries, which, if not good wine, were very tolerable vinegar
- 1831, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Romance and Reality, Volume 2, page 54
- (figuratively) To heat as if by boiling.
- (figuratively) To reduce or diminish.
- To digest in the stomach.
- (transitive) To devise.
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decoit
English
Noun
decoit (plural decoits)
- Alternative form of dacoit
Anagrams
- coedit, coited
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