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RARIFY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does rarify mean? 

RARIFY (verb)
  The verb RARIFY has 1 sense:

1. make more complex, intricate, or richerplay

  Familiarity information: RARIFY used as a verb is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


RARIFY (verb)

 Conjugation: 
Present simple: I / you / we / they rarify  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation ... he / she / it rarifies  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Past simple: rarified  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Past participle: rarified  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
-ing form: rarifying  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation


Sense 1

Meaning:

Make more complex, intricate, or richer

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

complicate; elaborate; rarify; refine

Context example:

refine a design or pattern

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


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