concrete
verb/ˈkɒŋkriːt/
/ˈkɑːnkriːt/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they concrete | /ˈkɒŋkriːt/ /ˈkɑːnkriːt/ |
| he / she / it concretes | /ˈkɒŋkriːts/ /ˈkɑːnkriːts/ |
| past simple concreted | /ˈkɒŋkriːtɪd/ /ˈkɑːnkriːtɪd/ |
| past participle concreted | /ˈkɒŋkriːtɪd/ /ˈkɑːnkriːtɪd/ |
| -ing form concreting | /ˈkɒŋkriːtɪŋ/ /ˈkɑːnkriːtɪŋ/ |
- concrete something (over) to cover something with concrete
- The garden had been concreted over.
Word Originlate Middle English (in the sense ‘solidified’): from French concret or Latin concretus, past participle of concrescere ‘grow together’. The noun sense ‘building material’ dates from the mid 19th cent.Want to learn more?
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