Rarefy

Word RAREFY
Character 6
Hyphenation rar e fy
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Rarefy"

What do we mean by rarefy?

To make thin or less dense, as air. intransitive verb

To purify or refine. intransitive verb

To become thin or less dense. intransitive verb

To make rare, thin, porous, or less dense; expand or enlarge without adding any new matter; figuratively, to spread or stretch out; distend: opposed to condense.

To become rare; pass into a thinner or less dense condition.

To become less dense; to become thin and porous. intransitive verb

To make rare, thin, porous, or less dense; to expand or enlarge without adding any new portion of matter to; -- opposed to condense. transitive verb

To make rare, thin, porous, or less dense verb

To expand or enlarge without adding any new portion of matter to. verb

Lessen the density or solidity of verb

Weaken the consistency of (a chemical substance) verb

Make more subtle or refined verb

To make rare, thin, porous, or less dense

To expand or enlarge without adding any new portion of matter to.

1. The recommended course of action one should take to stop being so basic, boring, bland, or obvious. 2. The act of becoming rare or unique. The opposite of staying basic. 3. The act of acquiring characteristics that might make a person interesting, extraordinary, or just simply worth devoting time or attention to. Urban Dictionary

Synonyms and Antonyms for Rarefy

The word "rarefy" in example sentences

I'm no stranger to the Gentri-verse and I ride my bike all the time, and I can't even relate to him--which, I guess, is why I also can't always relate to the "bike culture," since they seem so determined to rarefy the normal. ❋ BikeSnobNYC (2010)

Because the elements, on the other hand, can be rarefied and condensed, they can incline the lumen in themselves away from the center of the universe, so as to rarefy it, or toward the center so as to condense it, and this accounts for their natural capacity to move up and down. ❋ Lewis, Neil (2007)

Special clamps can be made to hold the cottle in position and are very convenient if many moulds are to be made, but this is rarefy done. ❋ Unknown (1991)

NOTE. — _fy_, meaning to make, is found as a suffix in derivatives too numerous to mention; as, purify (to _make pure_), rarefy (to _make rare_), classify (to _make_ or put into a _class_), etc. ❋ Elmer W. Cavins (N/A)

The arid plains from which the conglomerate crops out rarefy the superincumbent air-stratum to such a degree that the intensely chilled layers resting on the closely adjoining snow-peaks pour down to reëstablish equilibrium, with the wrathful force of an invisible cataract, eight, ten, even seventeen thousand feet in height. ❋ Various (N/A)

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I shall protest the roving apeman tribes, the sheep-people munching the far fields prayed on by the feudal land-baron wolves who rarefy themselves in the few skyscraper summits and horde unremembered foods. ❋ Bradbury, Ray, 1920- (1949)

But as such means are not at disposal, it becomes necessary to place the terminal in a bulb and rarefy the air in the same. ❋ Nikola Tesla (1899)

It is certainly possible to take a hollow core of copper, rarefy the gas in the same, and by passing impulses of sufficiently high frequency through a circuit around it, bring the gas inside to a high degree of incandescence; but as to the nature of the forces there would be considerable uncertainty, for it would be doubtful whether with such impulses the copper core would act as a static screen. ❋ Nikola Tesla (1899)

Our condensers, which compress, cool, and rarefy air, enabling travellers to obtain water and even ice from the atmosphere, are great aids in desert exploration, removing absolutely the principal distress of the ancient caravan. ❋ Unknown (1894)

I assumed that when the sun is low the vapours above the edge of the crater and elsewhere cool and condense, thus bending the rays and seeming to lift the sun higher; but after a time the rays heat and rarefy the vapours, thus lowering the sun again. ❋ John Munro (1889)

It is then that the flowers of this world bloom brightest; that its sun is the most genial; that its clouds are the scarcest; that its fruit is the most delicious; that the air is the most balmy; that its cigars are of the highest flavor; that the warmth and radiance of early matrimonial felicity so rarefy the intellectual atmosphere that the soul mounts higher, and enjoys a wider prospect, than ever before. ❋ Unknown (1884)

The air consequently was damp and gross, for want of stronger rays to open and rarefy it. ❋ 46-120? Plutarch (1884)

The markings, always spots and specks, the largest never exceeding 0·1 inch in diameter, are invariably most numerous towards the large end, where they are sometimes, though rarefy, slightly confluent. ❋ Allan Octavian Hume (1870)

They are earth's lumi - naries, which serve to cleanse and rarefy the atmosphere of ❋ Mary Baker Eddy (1865)

The rarefy of the atmosphere continued to affect the wood-work of the wagons, and the wheels were incessantly falling to pieces. ❋ Irving, Washington, 1783-1859 (1850)

Thou mayst change the thoughts into new forms; thou mayst rarefy and sublimate it into a finer spirit, -- but thou canst not annihilate that which has no home but in the memory, no substance but the idea. ❋ Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton (1838)

She [might be] pretty but she's [boring] [as all hell]. She's needs to rarefy, bad. ❋ Mickey Mackenzie FM (2019)

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