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RARIFY
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I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they rarify ... he / she / it rarifies
Past simple: rarified
Past participle: rarified
-ing form: rarifying
Sense 1
Meaning:
Make more complex, intricate, or richer
Example:
refine a design or pattern
Synonyms:
complicate; elaborate; rarify; refine
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "rarify" is one way to...):
alter; change; modify (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "rarify"):
involve (make complex or intricate or complicated)
develop (elaborate by the unfolding of a musical idea and by the working out of the rhythmic and harmonic changes in the theme)
sophisticate (make more complex or refined)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
