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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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