concentrated

[kon-suhn-trey-tid]

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.

Other Word Forms

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of concentrated¹

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

Example Sentences

Because these groups were concentrated in specific counties and eligible for benefits through refugee programs, their trauma, resettlement stress and needs could be documented.

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Initially, the company had a concentrated portfolio in the U.K., before acquisitions established Norway as its largest producing country, and gave it assets in Latin America, North Africa and Southeast Asia.

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Instead, he is aiming for a deal that halts the fighting concentrated in eastern Ukraine, where Russian forces have made slow but steady territorial gains at great cost nearly four years after Moscow’s full-scale invasion.

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Mr. Chetty and his co-authors point to a familiar mix of factors that make some places worse for social mobility—concentrated poverty, poor school quality, single-parent families, crime and racial bias.

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Fluorescent microplastics used in the study were found inside plaques and concentrated within the endothelial layer, consistent with reports from human samples that have revealed microplastics in arterial lesions.

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