concern
/kənˈsɝn/ verb B2- To relate or belong to; to have reference to or connection with; to affect the interest of; to be of importance to.
- To engage by feeling or sentiment; to interest. · A good prince concerns himself in the happiness of his subjects.
- To make somebody worried. · I’m concerned that she’s becoming an alcoholic.
He/she/it concerns · Past concerned · Past participle concerned · -ing form concerning
Verb forms
- Base form
- concern
- He/she/it
- concerns
- Past
- concerned
- Past participle
- concerned
- -ing form
- concerning
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The sight of this officer recalled Villefort from the third heaven to earth; he composed his face, as we have before described, and said, “I have read the letter, sir, and you have acted rightly in arresting this man; now inform me what you have discovered concerning him and the conspiracy.”
“Certainly,” continued Danglars, “the sacrifice was no trifling one, when the beauty of the bride is concerned.
He questioned me concerning Captain Leclere’s death; and, as the latter had told me, gave me a letter to carry on to a person in Paris.
Only in this way can I make the reader appreciate the people concerned and the strange setting in which their fate was cast.
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