Verb

(concentrat)

(ambitransitive) To bring to, or direct toward, a common center; to unite more closely; to gather into one body, mass, or force.

to concentrate rays of light into a focus

to concentrate the attention

Let me concentrate !

To increase the strength and diminish the bulk of, as of a liquid or an ore; to intensify, by getting rid of useless material; to condense (qualifier, as opposed to 'dilute').

to concentrate acid by evaporation

to concentrate by washing

To approach or meet in a common center; to consolidate.

Population tends to concentrate in cities.

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To focus one's thought or attention (on).

Verb

(en verb)

To turn aside or away.

To avert the eyes from an object.

To ward off, or prevent, the occurrence or effects of.

How can the danger be averted ?

* Milton

To avert his ire.

* Prior

Till ardent prayer averts the public woe.

(archaic) To turn away.

* Thomson

Cold and averting from our neighbour's good.

(archaic) To turn away.

* Francis Bacon

When atheists and profane persons do hear of so many discordant and contrary opinions in religion, it doth avert them from the church.