RARIFY

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Present simple: I / you / we / they rarify ... he / she / it rarifies

Past simple: rarified

Past participle: rarified

-ing form: rarifying

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