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 richer

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• RARIFY (verb)

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

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