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Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
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verb
To come together at a common centre.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, dated, intransitive
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verb
To coincide.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, dated, intransitive
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verb
To bring together at a common centre.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, dated, transitive
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verb
To focus.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, dated, transitive
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verb
To condense, to concentrate.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, dated, transitive
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verb
bring into focus or alignment; to converge or cause to converge; of ideas or emotions
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: concenter, focalize, focalise, focus
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Broader terms: align, aline, line up, adjust
Narrower terms: refocus
History
(late 16th century) From a Romance language, see French concentrer, Italian concentràre, Spanish concentrar; alternatively from Medieval Latin/New Latin concentrō. By surface analysis, con- + centre. Doublet of concentrate.
