Concentrate and Dilute

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Concentrate verb - To increase the amount of (a substance in a mixture) by removing other substances.

Usage example: prolonged boiling is required to concentrate the sap when making maple syrup

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Dilute is an antonym for concentrate.

Dilute verb - To alter (something) for the worse with the addition of foreign or lower-grade substances.

Usage example: the pharmacist was convicted of diluting prescription drugs in order to increase profits

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Concentrate is an antonym for dilute in topics: water down, weaken.

Nearby Words: diluted, dilution, diluting

power	concentrate power	dilute power
firepower	concentrate firepower	dilute firepower

Graduate school chemists will run it through a simple distillation to take out other alcohols, dilute it with water, and add some orange concentrate.

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