concretes

Verb

concrete (third-person singular simple present concretes, present participle concreting, simple past and past participle concreted)

1. (transitive, usually) To cover with or encase in concrete (building material).
   • I hate grass, so I concreted over my lawn.
2. (transitive, usually) To solidify: to change from being abstract to being concrete (actual, real).
   • […] 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...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...
3. (archaic, intransitive) To unite or coalesce into a solid mass.
   • 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...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: […]...

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