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bunched

concentrated \concentrated\ adj.

  1. Having a high density of (the indicated substance); as, a narrow thread of concentrated ore.

    Note: [Narrower terms: undiluted (vs. diluted)]

  2. Gathered together or made less diffuse; as, their concentrated efforts; his concentrated attention. Opposite of distributed or diffused.

    Note: [Narrower terms: bunched, bunchy, clustered; centered, centred, centralized, focused; undivided] [Also See: compact.]

  3. Intense; in an extreme degree; -- of mental phenomena; as, her concentrated passion held them at bay.

  4. being the most concentrated solution possible at a given temperature; unable to dissolve still more of a substance. Opposite of dilute or unsaturated.

    Note: [Narrower terms: supersaturated]

    Syn: saturated.

  5. reduced to a stronger or more concentrated form; as, concentrated sulfuric acid. Opposite of diluted.

    Syn: condensed.

  6. characterized by intensity; especially when imposed from without; -- of actions; as, concentrated study.

    Syn: intensive.

  7. characterized by mental concentration.

    Syn: intent.

Wiktionary
bunched

vb. (en-past of: bunch)

WordNet
bunched

adj. occurring close together in bunches or clusters [syn: bunchy, clustered]

Usage examples of "bunched".

Standing with humped shoulders, close beside the road, bunched together with mournfully drooping horns, heads held low beneath the massive bosses, bodies very big and black, were two old buffalo bulls.

Afsan by the throat, claws sharp against his skin, his dewlap bunched painfully against his neck.

One of them grabbed Afsan by the throat, claws sharp against his skin, his dewlap bunched painfully against his neck.

He had bunched himself an instant before Durk Undis swung around with the weapon.

The netman jabbed his trident at the staring eyeholes of the helmet before him, simultaneously making a high cast of the bunched net.

She glimpsed bunched fury, and then the boar ran over the wounded Celt like a careening chariot, the two tumbling as Hool roared in pain.

It was a new tilhalthree bunched hypericum leaves made of jade, clasped in gold.

Nadir Tous, Kojar Mirza and Shalmar Khor stood apart from each other and their followers bunched behind them in glaring, weapon-thumbing groups.

She bunched it in her hands and moved in close to Kibble to use it as a compress.

Bunched close together they came after me, the nailless, padded feet of their ponderous mounts making no sound upon the ocher, moss-like vegetation of the dead sea bottom.

Human Beings were bunched together around one trunk, nibbling leaves desultorily and clinging, one-handed, to branchlets.

Bram saw her right away, bunched with a small group that included Pite, Fraz, and Eena.

His hands roved to her waist, where he could feel the bunched material of the ruana, and the thought of the scant covering over her nakedness maddened him.

The dressing-table had been overturned and the rug was bunched and ruckled beneath them.

Tarpy had reached the steed and grabbed at the reins, and Tuck slid to a stop over the Man as the Vulg bunched and leapt at Tarpy, snarling jaws aslaver.