Definition of "concretize" []

• To make real or specific: "The need to simplify and concretize . . . was hardly acceptable to a mind fascinated by the . . . suggestiveness of ideas” ( Arthur A. Cohen). (verb-transitive)

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• "Basically, what CIP Summer School has done for me is to concretize the fact that our lives are knit up together, our futures are inseparable."
• "There are those who, for a variety of reasons, will concretize these visions and insist that these images are literally true, but the initial vision that brought these visions to us, whether Zeus, a man/elephant, or a pair of snakes, are not descriptions of actual people of objects, but are mystical poetry that contain a truth."
• "Justice is a value that often lies behind law which attempt to express and concretize that value across society."