concentrate

think about closely

Synonyms: apply, attend, be engrossed in, bring to bear, brood over, center, consider closely, contemplate, crack one’s brains, direct attention, establish, examine, fixate, fix attention, focus, focus attention, get on the beam, give attention, hammer, hammer away at, head trip, intensify, knuckle down, meditate, muse, need, occupy thoughts, peruse, ponder, pour it on, put, put mind to, rack one’s brains, rivet, ruminate, scrutinize, set, settle, study, sweat, think hard, weigh

gather, collect

Synonyms: accumulate, agglomerate, aggregate, amass, assemble, bunch, center, centralize, cluster, coalesce, collect, combine, compact, compress, congest, conglomerate, congregate, consolidate, constrict, contract, converge, cramp, crowd, draw together, eliminate, embody, focalize, focus, forgather, garner, get to the meat, heap, heap up, hoard, huddle, integrate, intensify, localize, mass, muster, narrow, pile, reduce, salt away, store, strengthen, swarm, unify, zero in

Antonyms: disperse, scatter

The government should concentrate more on education.

Industry should not be concentrated in our town.

concentrate on your driving!

Power is concentrated in a few hands.

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