concretize

verb

con·​cret·​ize kän-ˈkrē-ˌtīz How to pronounce concretize (audio)
ˈkän-ˌkrē-
concretized; concretizing
Synonyms of concretizenext

transitive verb

: to make concrete, specific, or definite
tried to concretize his ideas

intransitive verb

: to become concrete
concretization
(ˌ)kän-ˌkrē-tə-ˈzā-shən How to pronounce concretize (audio)
noun

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There, the flimsy divide between low- and middle-income workers wouldn’t be concretized through housing policy. — Jennifer Wilson, The New Yorker, 10 Mar. 2025 Like Luna, Kite is participating directly in a system of cultural recording, but her refusal to legibly encode or concretize her scores for the mainstream destabilizes the ethnographic gaze and its desire to document, categorize, and control Indigenous culture, language, and bodies. — Christopher T. Green, Artforum, 1 Mar. 2025

Word History

Etymology

concrete entry 1 + -ize

First Known Use

1884, in the meaning defined at transitive sense

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The first known use of concretize was in 1884

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