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concentre

  • /kɑnˈsɛntɚ/ US
  • /kɒnˈsɛntə/ UK

Rhymes with -ɛntə(ɹ)

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(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.

verb concentres · concentring · concentred · concenter

  1. UK, dated, intransitive To come together at a common centre. As from each angle of the Vault / Wherein thou lyeſt, a line is brought / Vnto the Kingly founders heart; / So vnto thee, from euery part, / See how our loues doe runne by line, / And dead, concenter in thy Shrine.

    Similar: converge

  2. UK, dated, intransitive To coincide. Are we not ſufficiently Brutes, to call that work brutiſh which begets us? […] All Opinions concenter in this, […]
  3. UK, dated, transitive To bring together at a common centre. For one ſo rarely tun’d to fit all parts; / For one to whom eſpous’d are all the Arts; / Long have I ſought for: but co’d never ſee / Them all concenter’d in one man, but Thee.
  4. UK, dated, transitive To focus. For an instant the gaze of the horror-stricken multitude was concentred on the ghastly miracle; […]
  5. UK, dated, transitive To condense, to concentrate. Breathes there the man, with soul so dead, / Who never to himself hath said, / This is my own, my native land! […] The wretch, concentered all in self, / Living, shall forfeit fair renown, / And, doubly dying, shall go down / To the vile dust, from whence he sprung, / Unwept, unhonoured, and unsung.

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"concentre." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/concentre. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

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@misc{concentre_2026,
  title = {concentre},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/concentre},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}