concentrated

American  

[kon-suhn-trey-tid] / ˈkɒn sənˌtreɪ tɪd /

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, especially liquid.

   concentrated orange juice.

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Other Word Forms

• nonconcentrated adjective
• superconcentrated adjective
• unconcentrated adjective
• unconcentratedly adverb
• well-concentrated adjective

Etymology

Origin of concentrated

First recorded in 1680–90; concentrate + -ed ²

Example Sentences

Shaw, the renowned number-crunching hedge fund manager, calculated how long it would take for the concentrated U.S. stock market to return to normal.

From MarketWatch

The exhibition contains a self-portrait in this larger format, but it doesn’t have the concentrated punch and mystery that the standard Polaroids—requiring the viewer to lean in and peer—have in abundance.

From The Wall Street Journal

But that still translates to hundreds of thousands of homes, concentrated in cities such as Atlanta and Charlotte, N.C.

From The Wall Street Journal

He also maintained that violence linked to organized crime tends to be concentrated outside the main tourist corridors.

From Los Angeles Times

Their analysis showed that nearly all of the antibodies concentrated on a single region of the receptor.

From Science Daily

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