reconcentrate

verb

re·con·cen·trate | \ (ˌ)rē-ˈkän(t)-sən-ˌtrāt

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, -ˌsen-\

reconcentrated; reconcentrating; reconcentrates

Definition of reconcentrate

1 transitive + intransitive : to concentrate further or again … larger concerns over reconcentrating poverty from one area of the city to another.— Antonio Olivo If the glass broke down, the plutonium could reconcentrate, form a critical mass and carry on a nuclear chain reaction.— C. Claiborne Ray

2 transitive : to subject to reconcentration (see reconcentration sense 2) … the available data … indicate that 295,357 Cubans were reconcentrated, not counting those in the province of Havana, which supplied no data.— John Lawrence Tone

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