decoct
IPA: dɪkˈɔkt
verb
- (cooking) To make an infusion.
- (cooking) To reduce, or concentrate by boiling down.
- (figurative) To heat as if by boiling.
- (figurative) To reduce or diminish.
- To digest in the stomach.
- (transitive) To devise.
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Examples of "decoct" in Sentences
- Bark decoction used for dysentery.
- It is given in a decoction for laryngitis.
- A decoction of the root also is a febrifuge.
- A decoction of the leaves were used for beriberi.
- In decoction processes there must be at least two.
- In general, either a decoction or a tincture is used.
- Once the decoction was boiled thoroughly it could be drunk.
- A decoction of the cortex is recommended for anemia and constipation.
- Decoctions of leaves are also used for indigestion and abortifacient.
- Decoctions of leaves are also used for indigestion and as an abortifacient.
- I may decoct an essence in yonder furnace that will transmute the basest metal into gold.
- After 15 minutes, decoct one-third of the mash, bringing it slowly to a boil over 20 to 25 minutes.
- Pao-yü, on one hand, hastened to direct a servant to go and decoct them, and, on the other, he heaved a sigh.
- Mr. Trummer and Ms. Tierney have been trading legal papers since last year over ownership of the cocktail haunt, where bartenders in white lab coats decoct botanical-and-herb-infused elixirs from laboratory beakers.
- Take flower-de-luces, stalk, blossom, root, together; then decoct them over a slack fire; and with the liquid bathe your eyes several times a day; you will most certainly be cured of that weakness; but see that you purge first, and then go forward with the lotion.
- Dr. Swinnerton himself never appeared to triturate or decoct or do anything else with the mysterious herbs, our old friend was inclined to imagine the weighty commendation of their virtues to have been the idly solemn utterance of mental aberration at the hour of death.
- And to say the truth, remembering that Dr. Swinnerton himself never appeared to triturate or decoct or do anything else with the mysterious herbs, our old friend was inclined to imagine the weighty commendation of their virtues to have been the idly solemn utterance of mental aberration at the hour of death.