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| Main Entry: | concentrate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | think about closely |
| Synonyms: | apply, attend, be engrossed in, bring to bear, brood over, center, consider closely, contemplate, crack one's brains, direct attention, establish, examine, fix attention, fixate, focus, focus attention, get on the beam, give attention, hammer away at, hammer*, head trip, intensify, knuckle down, meditate, muse, need, occupy thoughts, peruse, ponder, pour it on, put, put mind to, rack one's brains, rivet, ruminate, scrutinize, set, settle, study, sweat, think hard, weigh |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | concentrate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | gather, collect |
| Synonyms: | accumulate, agglomerate, aggregate, amass, assemble, bunch, center, centralize, cluster, coalesce, collect, combine, compact, compress, conglomerate, congregate, consolidate, constrict, contract, converge, cramp, crowd, eliminate, embody, focus, garner, heap, hoard, huddle, integrate, intensify, localize, mass, muster, narrow, pile, reduce, salt away, store, strengthen, swarm, unify, congest, draw together, focalize, forgather, get to the meat, heap up, zero in* |
| Antonyms: | disperse, scatter |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | abridge |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | shorten |
| Synonyms: | abbreviate, abstract, chop, clip, compress, concentrate, condense, contract, curtail, cut, decrease, digest, diminish, downsize, lessen, limit, narrow, reduce, restrict, slash, snip*, summarize, trim, truncate, blue pencil, put in nutshell |
| Antonyms: | add, enlarge, expand, extend, increase, lengthen |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | accumulate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | gather or amass something |
| Synonyms: | accrue, acquire, add to, agglomerate, aggregate, amalgamate, assemble, cache, collect, collocate, compile, concentrate, expand, gain, gather, grow, heap, hoard, incorporate, increase, lump*, mass, pile*, procure, profit, rack up*, round up*, stockpile, store, swell, unite, bring together, clean up*, cumulate, draw together, heap together, load up, make a bundle, make a killing, pile up*, roll up*, scare up, stack up, store up |
| Antonyms: | disperse, dissipate, dwindle, lessen, lose, spend, squander, waste |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | aim |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | point or direct at a goal |
| Synonyms: | address, angle, aspire, attempt, cast, concentrate, contemplate, covet, design, direct, endeavor, essay, fix, focus, intend, level, mean, plan, propose, purpose, set one's sights on, sight, slant, steer, strive, target, train, try, want, wish, zero in on, zoom in |
| Main Entry: | coagulate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | clot |
| Synonyms: | coalesce, compact, concentrate, concrete, condense, congeal, consolidate, curdle, dry, harden, jell, jelly, set, solidify, thicken, clabber, gel, gelate, gelatinize, glop up, inspissate, jellify, lopper |
| Antonyms: | dilute, dissolve, melt, open, thin, unclot |
| Main Entry: | compact |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make condensed |
| Synonyms: | combine, compress, concentrate, condense, consolidate, contract, cram, integrate, pack, set, solidify, stuff, unify, unite |
| Notes: | a compact is a formal agreement on rights and conduct, a treaty is a compact between nations, and a contract is a compact between two business entities |
| Antonyms: | enlarge, loosen, slacken, thin, uncondense |
| Main Entry: | compile |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | assemble, accumulate |
| Synonyms: | abridge, amass, arrange, assemble, collate, collect, collocate, compose, concentrate, congregate, consolidate, cull, edit, garner, gather, get together, glean, group, marshal, muster, organize, put together, recapitulate, unite, anthologize, bring together, colligate, draw together, heap up |
| Antonyms: | disassemble, disperse, scatter, separate |
| Main Entry: | compress |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | compact, condense |
| Synonyms: | abbreviate, abridge, abstract, bind, coagulate, concentrate, consolidate, constrict, contract, cram, cramp, crowd, crush, decrease, dehydrate, epitomize, narrow, pack, press, ram, reduce, restrict, shorten, shrink, shrivel, squash, squeeze, stuff, summarize, tighten, wedge, wrap, boil down, densen, densify, force into space, make brief, press together, syncopate, telescope |
| Antonyms: | blow up, expand, extend, fill, increase, loosen, stretch, uncompress, uncondense |
| Main Entry: | condense |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | abridge |
| Synonyms: | abbreviate, chop, coagulate, compact, compress, concentrate, constrict, contract, curtail, cut, cut down, digest, edit, encapsulate, epitomize, inventory, précis, precipitate, reduce, shorten, shrink, snip, solidify, sum, summarize, thicken, trim, blue pencil, boil down, decoct, densen, press together, put in a nutshell, summate, synopsize, telescope |
| Antonyms: | enlarge, expand, lengthen |
| Main Entry: | congregate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | assemble, come together |
| Synonyms: | besiege, collect, concentrate, congress, convene, converge, convoke, corral, flock*, gather, mass, meet, muster, pack, raise, rally, rendezvous, round up, swarm, teem, throng, bunch up, forgather, gang around, gang up, hang out*, make the scene, meet up |
| Antonyms: | divide, scatter, separate |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | consolidate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | combine; make firm |
| Synonyms: | add to, amalgamate, amass, band, bind, blend, build up, cement, centralize, compact, compound, concentrate, condense, connect, develop, fortify, fuse, harden, hitch, incorporate, join, league, mass, meld, mix, pool, reinforce, secure, set, solidify, stabilize, strengthen, thicken, unify, bunch up, concatenate, conjoin, densen, federate, hitch on, hook up with, plug into, render solid, slap on, tack on, tag on, team up with, throw in together, tie in, tie up with |
| Antonyms: | disjoin, disperse, divide, part, separate |
| Main Entry: | constrict |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | inhibit |
| Synonyms: | choke, circumscribe, clench, compress, concentrate, condense, confine, contract, cramp, curb, limit, narrow, pinch, restrain, restrict, shrink, squeeze, strangle, tense, tighten, tuck, astringe, constringe, draw together, strangulate, tauten |
| Antonyms: | expand, free, loosen, open, release, let go |
| Main Entry: | converge |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | gather |
| Synonyms: | assemble, coincide, combine, concentrate, concur, encounter, focus, join, meet, merge, mingle, rally, unite, come together, concenter, enter in, focalize |
| Antonyms: | disperse, diverge, divide, scatter, separate, spread |
| Main Entry: | distill |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make pure; draw out something |
| Synonyms: | brew, clarify, concentrate, condense, cook, cut, cut down, dribble, drip, drop, evaporate, express, extract, ferment, infuse, precipitate, press, purify, rectify, refine, steam, sublimate, trickle, trim, vaporize, boil down, cut to the bone, get to the meat, press out, rarefy, squeeze out, volatilize |
| Antonyms: | dirty, pollute |
| Main Entry: | dry |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | take moisture out of |
| Synonyms: | bake, blot, concentrate, condense, dehydrate, deplete, desiccate, drain, empty, evaporate, exhaust, harden, kiln, mummify, parch, scorch, sear, shrivel, sponge, stale, swab, wilt, wipe, wither, anhydrate, dehumidify, exsiccate, freeze-dry, soak up, torrefy, towel, wizen |
| Antonyms: | dampen, soak, water, wet |
| Main Entry: | evaporate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | dry up, dissolve |
| Synonyms: | clear, concentrate, dehydrate, desiccate, disappear, dispel, disperse, dissipate, evanesce, fade, melt, parch, pass, vanish, vaporize, weaken, dehumidify, dematerialize, evanish, fade away |
| Antonyms: | dampen, soak, wet |
| Main Entry: | extract |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | something condensed from whole |
| Synonyms: | abstract, citation, clipping, concentrate, cutting, distillation, essence, excerpt, infusion, juice*, passage, quotation, selection, decoction, distillate, elicitation |
| Antonyms: | insertion |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | focus |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | aim attention at |
| Synonyms: | adjust, attract, bring out, center, centralize, concentrate, convene, converge, direct, fasten, fix, fixate, join, knuckle down*, meet, pinpoint, put, sharpen, spotlight*, sweat*, concenter, get detail, home in, home in on, hone in, key on, move in, pour it on, rivet, zero in*, zoom in |
| Antonyms: | ignore, neglect |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | heap |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | amass, collect in pile |
| Synonyms: | accumulate, add, arrange, augment, bank, bunch, concentrate, deposit, dump, fill, gather, group, hoard, increase, load, lump, mass, mound, pack, stack, stockpile, store, swell, fill up |
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