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Adjective concentrated has 4 senses
- concentrated - gathered together or made less diffuse; "their concentrated efforts"; "his concentrated attention"; "concentrated study"; "a narrow thread of concentrated ore"
Antonyms: distributed, apportioned, dealt out, doled out, meted out, parceled out, broken, diffuse, diffused, dispensed, dispersed, spread, divided, divided up, shared, shared out, encyclical, fanned, spread-out, far-flung, widespread, low-density, rationed, separated, spaced, sparse, thin, straggly, unfocused, unfocussed, scattered, strewn, splashed, suffused
- concentrated - of or relating to a solution whose dilution has been reduced
Antonyms: diluted, dilute (indirect, via undiluted)
- concentrated - intensely focused; "her concentrated passion held them at bay"
Antonym: mild (indirect, via intense)
- saturated, concentrated - being the most concentrated solution possible at a given temperature; unable to dissolve still more of a substance; "a saturated solution"
Verb concentrate has 8 senses
- concentrate - make (the solvent of a solution) dense or denser
--1 is one way to change state, turn
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
- concentrate, focus, center, centre, pore, rivet - direct one's attention on something; "Please focus on your studies and not on your hobbies"
--2 is one way to think, cogitate, cerebrate
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s on something
=> Somebody ----s
- centralize, centralise, concentrate - make central; "The Russian government centralized the distribution of food"
--3 is one way to change, alter, modify
Antonyms: decentralize, deconcentrate, decentralise
Sample sentences:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s something
- digest, condense, concentrate - make more concise; "condense the contents of a book into a summary"
--4 is one way to abridge, foreshorten, abbreviate, shorten, cut, contract, reduce
Sample sentences:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
- concentrate - draw together or meet in one common center; "These groups concentrate in the inner cities"
--5 is one way to converge
Sample sentences:
Something is ----ing PP
Somebody ----s PP
- condense, concentrate, contract - compress or concentrate; "Congress condensed the three-year plan into a six-month plan"
--6 is one way to change, alter, modify
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
- boil down, reduce, decoct, concentrate - be cooked until very little liquid is left; "The sauce should reduce to one cup"
--7 is one way to decrease, diminish, lessen, fall
Sample sentence:
Something ----s
- reduce, boil down, concentrate - cook until very little liquid is left; "The cook reduced the sauce by boiling it for a long time"
--8 is one way to decrease, lessen, minify
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
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