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  • verb American Alternative spelling of concentred; simple past tense and past participle of concenter.

Etymologies

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con- + center + -ed

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Examples

  • He pressed the second button in the row and the bright light concentered at a particular place on the concrete wall, illuminating, in a row, a clock, a barometer, and centigrade and Fahrenheit thermometers.

    CHAPTER I 2010

  • “The wretch, concentered all in self,” wrote Sir Walter Scott in 1805, might get “power and pelf” but would wind up “unwept, unhonored and unsung.”

    No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003

  • “The wretch, concentered all in self,” wrote Sir Walter Scott in 1805, might get “power and pelf” but would wind up “unwept, unhonored and unsung.”

    No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003

  • “The wretch, concentered all in self,” wrote Sir Walter Scott in 1805, might get “power and pelf” but would wind up “unwept, unhonored and unsung.”

    No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003

  • “The wretch, concentered all in self,” wrote Sir Walter Scott in 1805, might get “power and pelf” but would wind up “unwept, unhonored and unsung.”

    No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003

  • All the shames, sorrows, and sufferings of France were concentered on his head.

    Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847 Various

  • As his imagination was fired with the first conception of this design, he caught her to his breast with a fury, in which all the passions in all their rage were at once concentered: 'Let the priest,' said he, 'instantly unite us.

    Almoran and Hamet John Hawkesworth

  • As new discoveries were made incidental difficulties connected with the filling of shells occupied the concentered study of the manufacturers.

    Lloyd George The Man and His Story Frank Dilnot

  • Perhaps they were apprehensive, lest a science which concentered the force of argument, might obstruct the cultivation of that which was meant to dilate it.

    The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 02: Augustus Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus

  • Perhaps they were apprehensive, lest a science which concentered the force of argument, might obstruct the cultivation of that which was meant to dilate it.

    De vita Caesarum Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus

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