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con·cen·trat·ed 
[kon-suhn-trey-tid] Pronunciation Key
[kon-suhn-trey-tid] Pronunciation Key –adjective
| 1. | applied with all one's attention, energy, etc.: their concentrated efforts to win the election. |
| 2. | clustered or gathered together closely. |
| 3. | treated to remove or reduce an inessential ingredient, esp. liquid: concentrated orange juice. |
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con·cen·trate
[kon-suhn-treyt] Pronunciation Key verb, -trat·ed, -trat·ing, noun
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[kon-suhn-treyt] Pronunciation Key verb, -trat·ed, -trat·ing, noun –verb (used with object)
–verb (used without object)
–noun
| 1. | to bring or draw to a common center or point of union; converge; direct toward one point; focus: to concentrate one's attention on a problem; to concentrate the rays of the sun with a lens. |
| 2. | to put or bring into a single place, group, etc.: The nation's wealth had been concentrated in a few families. |
| 3. | to intensify; make denser, stronger, or purer, esp. by the removal or reduction of liquid: to concentrate fruit juice; to concentrate a sauce by boiling it down. |
| 4. | Mining. to separate (metal or ore) from rock, sand, etc., so as to improve the quality of the valuable portion. |
| 5. | to bring all efforts, faculties, activities, etc., to bear on one thing or activity (often fol. by on or upon): to concentrate on solving a problem. |
| 6. | to come to or toward a common center; converge; collect: The population concentrated in one part of the city. |
| 7. | to become more intense, stronger, or purer. |
| 8. | a concentrated form of something; a product of concentration: a juice concentrate. |
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con·cen·tra·tive·ness, noun
con·cen·tra·tor, noun
—Antonyms 1. dissipate, disperse. 5. diverge.
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| con·cen·trate
(kŏn'sən-trāt') Pronunciation Key
v. con·cen·trat·ed, con·cen·trat·ing, con·cen·trates v. tr.
v. intr.
n. A product that has been concentrated, especially a food that has been reduced in volume or bulk by the removal of liquid: pineapple juice concentrate. [From concenter.] con'cen·tra'tive adj., con'cen·tra'tive·ly adv., con'cen·tra'tor n. |
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| concentrated | |
adjective | |
| 1. | gathered together or made less diffuse; "their concentrated efforts"; "his concentrated attention"; "concentrated study"; "a narrow thread of concentrated ore" [ant: distributed] |
| 2. | of or relating to a solution whose dilution has been reduced |
| 3. | intensely focused; "her concentrated passion held them at bay" |
| 4. | (of light) transmitted directly from a pointed light source [syn: hard] [ant: diffuse] |
| 5. | being the most concentrated solution possible at a given temperature; unable to dissolve still more of a substance; "a saturated solution" [syn: saturated] [ant: unsaturated] |
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