concentrate

Academic Word List, sublist 4.

About 12.16 uses per million words.

Meaning

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

   to concentrate rays of light into a focus

2. verb 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.

   to concentrate acid by evaporation

3. verb To approach or meet in a common center; to consolidate.

   Population tends to concentrate in cities.

4. verb To focus one's thought or attention (on).

   (oneself)

5. adjective concentrated
6. noun A substance that is in a condensed form.

   orange concentrate

Similar words

condense centralize reduce centre contract center focus pore boil down decoct

Often followed by

on the their in upon his and all more

Word family

concentrated concentrates concentrating concentration concentrative