Concentrate and Scatter

Concentrate

Concentrate verb - To bring together in one body or place.
Usage example: concentrate your forces on the right side of the battlefield

Scatter is an antonym for concentrate in topics: gather, think about closely.

Scatter

Scatter verb - To cause (members of a group) to move widely apart.
Usage example: the noise of the backfiring car scattered the pigeons

Concentrate is an antonym for scatter.

Common collocations

attention concentrate attention scatter attention
essence concentrate essence scatter essence
light concentrate light scatter light
ammo concentrate ammo scatter ammo
Other words: defenses, weapons.

Both words in one sentence

  • Labyrinths of Echo had the protagonist who have all his true wishes come true "sooner or later, one way or another" — Max survived only due to being too scatter-brained to concentrate on seriously willing anything and very afraid of dying.
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