concretize
verbEtymology From concrete + -ize.
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To make concrete, substantial, real, or tangible; to represent or embody a concept through a particular instance or example.
- An essence exists if and only if it is actualized or concretized somehow, in some concrete form.1962, Charles Hartshorne, “How Some Speak and Yet Do Not Speak of God,”, in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, volume 23, number 2, page 275:
- But Ms. Yauger's death concretized these abstract discussions and theories.1999, Sherry D. Akins, “Vital Signs: Teaching and Grieving,”, in The American Journal of Nursing, volume 99, number 8, page 88:
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- Rights in this way stem from social conventions that concretize and shape the values that underlie them.2003, Larry Alexander, “Is Judicial Review Democratic? A Comment on Harel”, in Law and Philosophy, volume 22, numbers 3-4, page 280:
- The Russian Ministry of Education has taken additional steps to concretize Russian control over the school system in occupied Ukraine.2025 August 28, Karolina Hird, “Russian Occupation Update, August 28, 2025”, in Ukraine Project, Institute for the Study of War:
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To be embodied, to have physical representation.
- These expressions of God's concern concretize around the figure of the divine hand or arm.2001, David L. Lieber, Jules Harlow, Etz Hayim: Torah and Commentary, page 1055:
- Derived terms
- concretizable, unconcretized
- Related terms
- concretization