Synonyms for concentrated

Verb

1. concentrate, change state, turn
usage: make (the solvent of a solution) dense or denser
2. concentrate, focus, center, centre, pore, rivet, think, cogitate, cerebrate
usage: direct one's attention on something; "Please focus on your studies and not on your hobbies"
3. centralize, centralise, concentrate, change, alter, modify
usage: make central; "The Russian government centralized the distribution of food"
4. digest, condense, concentrate, abridge, foreshorten, abbreviate, shorten, cut, contract, reduce
usage: make more concise; "condense the contents of a book into a summary"
5. concentrate, converge
usage: draw together or meet in one common center; "These groups concentrate in the inner cities"
6. condense, concentrate, contract, change, alter, modify
usage: compress or concentrate; "Congress condensed the three-year plan into a six-month plan"
7. boil down, reduce, decoct, concentrate, decrease, diminish, lessen, fall
usage: be cooked until very little liquid is left; "The sauce should reduce to one cup"
8. reduce, boil down, concentrate, decrease, lessen, minify
usage: cook until very little liquid is left; "The cook reduced the sauce by boiling it for a long time"

Adjective

1. concentrated (vs. distributed), accumulated, amassed, assembled, collected, congregate, massed, bunched, bunchy, clustered, centered, centred, centralized, centralised, focused, compact, dense, thick, gathered, deepened, saved up(predicate), stored-up(prenominal), stored up(predicate), single(prenominal), undivided, exclusive, thickset, fixed, intent, heaped, heaped-up, piled, cumulous, compact
usage: gathered together or made less diffuse; "their concentrated efforts"; "his concentrated attention"; "concentrated study"; "a narrow thread of concentrated ore"
2. concentrated, undiluted (vs. diluted)
usage: of or relating to a solution whose dilution has been reduced
3. concentrated, intense (vs. mild)
usage: intensely focused; "her concentrated passion held them at bay"
4. saturated (vs. unsaturated), concentrated, supersaturated
usage: being the most concentrated solution possible at a given temperature; unable to dissolve still more of a substance; "a saturated solution"
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