"concretize" meaning in English

See concretize in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Verb

Forms: concretizes [present, singular, third-person], concretizing [participle, present], concretized [participle, past], concretized [past], concretise [alternative]
Etymology: From concrete + -ize. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|concrete|ize}} concrete + -ize Head templates: {{en-verb}} concretize (third-person singular simple present concretizes, present participle concretizing, simple past and past participle concretized)
  1. (transitive) To make concrete, substantial, real, or tangible; to represent or embody a concept through a particular instance or example. Tags: transitive Translations (to make substantial, real, or tangible): канкрэтызава́ць (kankretyzavácʹ) [imperfective, perfective] (Belarusian), конкретизирам (konkretiziram) (Bulgarian), konkretisere (Danish), concretiseren (Dutch), konkretiseerima (Estonian), concrétiser (French), konkretisieren (German), konkretizál (Hungarian), concretizzare (Italian), konkretizēt (Latvian), konkretyzować [imperfective] (Polish), skonkretyzować [perfective] (Polish), concretizar (Portuguese), concretiza (Romanian), конкретизи́ровать (konkretizírovatʹ) [imperfective] (Russian), конкретизи́ровать (konkretizírovatʹ) [perfective] (Russian), concretizar (Spanish), konkretisera (Swedish), конкретизува́ти (konkretyzuváty) [imperfective, perfective] (Ukrainian)
    Sense id: en-concretize-en-verb-kbCd4QAB Categories (other): Terms with Portuguese translations Disambiguation of Terms with Portuguese translations: 46 54 Disambiguation of 'to make substantial, real, or tangible': 95 5
  2. (intransitive) To be embodied, to have physical representation. Tags: intransitive
    Sense id: en-concretize-en-verb-y34UIdBj Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ize, Entries with translation boxes, Terms with Belarusian translations, Terms with Bulgarian translations, Terms with Danish translations, Terms with Dutch translations, Terms with Estonian translations, Terms with French translations, Terms with German translations, Terms with Hungarian translations, Terms with Italian translations, Terms with Latvian translations, Terms with Polish translations, Terms with Portuguese translations, Terms with Romanian translations, Terms with Russian translations, Terms with Spanish translations, Terms with Swedish translations, Terms with Ukrainian translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 29 71 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ize: 36 64 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 25 75 Disambiguation of Terms with Belarusian translations: 32 68 Disambiguation of Terms with Bulgarian translations: 38 62 Disambiguation of Terms with Danish translations: 23 77 Disambiguation of Terms with Dutch translations: 32 68 Disambiguation of Terms with Estonian translations: 38 62 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 33 67 Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 32 68 Disambiguation of Terms with Hungarian translations: 42 58 Disambiguation of Terms with Italian translations: 28 72 Disambiguation of Terms with Latvian translations: 38 62 Disambiguation of Terms with Polish translations: 38 62 Disambiguation of Terms with Portuguese translations: 46 54 Disambiguation of Terms with Romanian translations: 34 66 Disambiguation of Terms with Russian translations: 28 72 Disambiguation of Terms with Spanish translations: 27 73 Disambiguation of Terms with Swedish translations: 34 66 Disambiguation of Terms with Ukrainian translations: 34 66
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: concretizable, unconcretized Related terms: concretization, concretisation

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-03-09 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-03-02 using wiktextract (32c88e6 and 633533e). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.