перегонять in English:

You need some time to distill your knowledge.

I like to distill down to the bare essentials

She distilled the report into a paragraph.

“Dream Dances” was created by distilling company dancers’ dreams into improvisations and crystallizing those improvisations into closely patterned choreography.

the philosopher wanted to distill knowledge from those texts

Eo is of the mind that the fungus, grendel, which we distill, isn’t native to Mars and was instead planted here to enslave us to the swill.

my travel notes were distilled into a book