Concentrate

Quick meaning: Concentrate is a verb meaning (ergative) To bring to, or direct toward, a common center; to unite more closely; to gather into one body, mass, or force.

Meaning

(ergative) To bring to, or direct toward, a common center; to unite more closely; to gather into one body, mass, or force.

More Meanings

1. To increase the strength and diminish the bulk of, as of a liquid or an ore; to intensify, by getting rid of useless material; to condense.
2. To approach or meet in a common center; to consolidate.
3. (intransitive) To focus one's thought or attention (on).
4. concentrated
5. A substance that is in a condensed form.

Example Sentences

Let me concentrate!

to concentrate by washing

to concentrate the attention

to concentrate acid by evaporation

Word Forms

• concentrates
• concentrating
• concentrated

Synonyms for concentrate

Depending on context, synonyms include think, bury, focus, reduce, contract, centre.

Antonyms for concentrate

Common opposites include dilute, decentralize, deconcentrate, decentralise.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include condense, centralize, reduce, centre, contract, center.

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