verb
- Be relevant to.
- usage: "There were lots of questions referring to her talk"; "My remark pertained to your earlier comments"
- Be on the mind of.
- usage: "I worry about the second Germanic consonant shift"
adjective
- Feeling or showing worry or solicitude.
- usage: "concerned parents of youthful offenders"; "was concerned about the future"; "we feel concerned about accomplishing the task at hand"; "greatly concerned not to disappoint a small child"
- Involved in or affected by or having a claim to or share in.
- usage: "a memorandum to those concerned"; "an enterprise in which three men are concerned"; "factors concerned in the rise and fall of epidemics"; "the interested parties met to discuss the business"
- synonyms: interested
- Culpably involved.
- usage: "all those concerned in the bribery case have been identified"; "named three officials implicated in the plot"; "an innocent person implicated by circumstances in a crime"
- synonyms: implicated
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