Concentrate

/ˈkɒn.sən.tɹeɪt/ · verb

Meaning

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

Definitions by Sense

1. (ergative) To bring to, or direct toward, a common center; to unite more closely; to gather into one body, mass, or force.
2. 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.
3. To approach or meet in a common center; to consolidate.
4. (intransitive) To focus one's thought or attention (on).
5. concentrated
6. A substance that is in a condensed form.

Example Sentences

to concentrate rays of light into a focus

to concentrate the attention

to concentrate acid by evaporation

to concentrate by washing

Population tends to concentrate in cities.

Buried within the Mediterranean littoral are some seventy to ninety million tons of slag from ancient smelting, about a third of it concentrated in Iberia. This ceaseless industrial fueling caused the deforestation of an estimated fifty to seventy million acres of woodlands.

(oneself)

Let me concentrate!

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Word Forms

• concentrates
• concentrating
• concentrated
• more concentrate
• most concentrate

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