| A figurative remark takes on literal construction, a metaphor is concretized in fact. |
| Veerappan, after being used to living in the jungle, couldn't recondition himself to the idea of migrating to concretized Chennai. |
| The Italian Marxist viewed religion as a political philosophy that justified and concretized exploitation. |
| Recent events have exacerbated intra-Kurdish antagonisms, but also concretized the autonomy that already exists. |
| The establishment of a nation state fueled messianic visions, and may have concretized some ideas that should have been kept more fluid. |
| The stone embankment came up in Hari Singh's regime and was further concretized by the successive governments. |
