Decoct vs. Concoct: What's the Difference?

To extract the flavor of by boiling.

To prepare by mixing ingredients, as in cooking.

To make concentrated; boil down.

To devise, using skill and intelligence; contrive

(cooking) To make an infusion.

To prepare something by mixing various ingredients, especially to prepare food for cooking.

(cooking) To reduce, or concentrate by boiling down.

(figurative) To contrive something using skill or ingenuity.

(figurative) To heat as if by boiling.

(obsolete) To digest.

(figurative) To reduce or diminish.

To digest; to convert into nourishment by the organs of nutrition.

To digest in the stomach.

To purify or refine chemically.

(transitive) To devise.

To prepare from crude materials, as food; to invent or prepare by combining different ingredients; as, to concoct a new dish or beverage.

To prepare by boiling; to digest in hot or boiling water; to extract the strength or flavor of by boiling; to make an infusion of.

To digest in the mind; to devise; to make up; to contrive; to plan; to plot.

To prepare by the heat of the stomach for assimilation; to digest; to concoct.

To mature or perfect; to ripen.

To warm, strengthen, or invigorate, as if by boiling.

Make a concoction (of) by mixing

Extract the essence of something by boiling it

Prepare or cook by mixing ingredients;

Be cooked until very little liquid is left;

Of charges

Steep in hot water

Devise or invent;