Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to concrete
Participle: concreted
Gerund: concreting
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | concrete |
| you | concrete |
| he;she;it | concretes |
| we | concrete |
| you | concrete |
| they | concrete |
Perfect
| I | have concreted |
| you | have concreted |
| he;she;it | has concreted |
| we | have concreted |
| you | have concreted |
| they | have concreted |
Past
| I | concreted |
| you | concreted |
| he;she;it | concreted |
| we | concreted |
| you | concreted |
| they | concreted |
Pluperfect
| I | had concreted |
| you | had concreted |
| he;she;it | had concreted |
| we | had concreted |
| you | had concreted |
| they | had concreted |
Future
| I | will concrete |
| you | will concrete |
| he;she;it | will concrete |
| we | will concrete |
| you | will concrete |
| they | will concrete |
Future Perfect
| I | will have concreted |
| you | will have concreted |
| he;she;it | will have concreted |
| we | will have concreted |
| you | will have concreted |
| they | will have concreted |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | concrete |
| you | concrete |
| he;she;it | concrete |
| we | concrete |
| you | concrete |
| they | concrete |
Perfect
| I | have concreted |
| you | have concreted |
| he;she;it | have concreted |
| we | have concreted |
| you | have concreted |
| they | have concreted |
Imperfect
| I | concreted |
| you | concreted |
| he;she;it | concreted |
| we | concreted |
| you | concreted |
| they | concreted |
Pluperfect
| I | had concreted |
| you | had concreted |
| he;she;it | had concreted |
| we | had concreted |
| you | had concreted |
| they | had concreted |
Conditional
Present
| I | would concrete |
| you | would concrete |
| he;she;it | would concrete |
| we | would concrete |
| you | would concrete |
| they | would concrete |
Perfect
| I | would have concreted |
| you | would have concreted |
| he;she;it | would have concreted |
| we | would have concreted |
| you | would have concreted |
| they | would have concreted |
Imperative
| you | concrete |
| we | Let's concrete |
| you | concrete |
Verbs conjugated like 'concrete'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'concrete'
concreate,
co-create,
cocreate,
concede,
concite,
concretise,
concretize,
concrew,
congree,
contrite,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. 1471, from L. concretus, pp. of concrescere "to grow together," from com- "together" + crescere "to grow" (see crescent). A logicians' term until meaning began to expand 1600s. Noun sense of "building material made from cement, etc." is first recorded 1834.
2. Borrowed from Latin concrētus, past participle of concrescō (to curdle) from con- (with, together) + crescō (to grow, rise).
Sample Sentences
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I hate grass, so I concreted over my lawn.
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In odd moments David had made an estimate on the cost of shooting down the menace in the eastern tunnel drifting and concreting the gash which would be left by the blasting out of the fissure material. [1919, Francis Lynde, David Vallory, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner's Sons, page 322:]
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At first they could not remember anything out of the ordinary, and then the farmer's wife remarked that they had changed the pattern of the milking parlour by concreting the area where the cows were waiting. [1985, Reshad Feild, Here to Heal, Shaftesbury, Dorset: Element Books, →ISBN, page 84:]
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Frequent catastrophic floods prompted civic leaders in the 1930s to transform the river into a flood-control channel to protect the burgeoning flatlands. Nearly the entire 51-mile river bottom was concreted over, except a few spots where the water table was too high. [2010 August 1, Louis Sahagun, “A journey of discovery on the L.A. River”, in Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, Calif.: Los Angeles Times Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 08 Jul 2023:]
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[…] the necessity of recognizing this relation outwardly and of perfecting herself in the forms required to express the recognition, had moved her to such diligence and faithfulness in practicing these forms that this exercise soon concreted itself into habit; it became automatic and unconscious; then a natural result followed: […] [1897, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], “[Pudd’nhead Wilson] Chapter”, in The Tragedy of Pudd’nhead Wilson: And the Comedy Those Extraordinary Twins, Hartford, Conn.: American Publishing Company, →OCLC, pages 55–56:]
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Just so economics has concreted the concept of capital. The law needs a term for the material and quasi-material objects of property. [1936, C. Reinold Noyes, The Institution of Property, New York, N.Y.; Toronto, Ont.; London: Longmans, Green and Co.; Humphrey Milford, page 536:]
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It is only such a logos that can concrete the concrete and make reality real. [1940, Kurt Riezler, Physics and Reality: […], New Haven, C.T.: Yale University Press, page 104:]
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When any ſaline Liquor is evaporated to a Cuticle and let cool, the Salt concretes in regular Figures; which argues, that the Particles of the Salt before they concreted, floated in the Liquor at equal diſtances in rank and file, and by conſequence that they acted upon one another by ſome Power which at equal diſtances is equal, at unequal diſtances unequal. [a. 1728 (date written), Isaac Newton, “[The Third Book of Opticks.] ”, in Opticks: Or, A Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections and Colours of Light. […], 4th edition, London: […] William Innys […], published 1730, →OCLC, page 363:]
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The Blood of ſome Perſons who have dy'd of the Plague could not be made to concrete, by reaſon of the Putrefaction already begun. [1731, John Arbuthnot, An Essay Concerning the Nature of Aliments, and the Choice of Them, According to the Different Constitutions of Human Bodies. […], London: […] J[acob] Tonson […], →OCLC, page 46:]
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At three years old, her mother observed something come from her, as she walked across the room, which, when examined, was found to be fat in a liquid state, which concreted when cold. [1813, Everard Home, “On the Formation of Fat in the Intestines of living Animals”, in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, London: […] W[illiam] Bulmer and Co. […], →ISSN, →OCLC, page 152:]
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The mastic which concretes on the stem is called mastic in the tear, while that which falls to the earth constitutes common mastic. [1840, Jonathan Pereira, “Pista'cia Lentis'cus, Linn. L. E. D.—The Mastic or Lentisk Tree.”, in The Elements of Materia Medica; […], Part II, London: Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longmans, page 1183:]