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Noun concentrate has 3 senses
- dressed ore, concentrate - the desired mineral that is left after impurities have been removed from mined ore
 
--1 is a kind of ore 
 - concentrate - a concentrated form of a foodstuff; the bulk is reduced by removing water
 
--2 is a kind of foodstuff, food product 
--2 has particulars: 
 - concentrate - a concentrated example; "the concentrate of contemporary despair"
 
--3 is a kind of prototype, paradigm, epitome, image 
  
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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