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US
/ˈɹɛɹəfaɪ/
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VERB
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lessen the density or solidity of
The bones are rarefied - make more subtle or refined
- weaken the consistency of (a chemical substance)
How To Use rarefy In A Sentence
- Everyone ought to rarefy his spiritual life.
- Exuding death, Adela seemed to steal the air in that cramped room, rarefying it. A Sweet Scent of Death
- On the other hand, at the top of the valuation range Iberdrola Renovables would be worth €4 million per megawatt -- clearly putting it at an altitude where the air is rarefying. It Isn't Hard to See Why Demand
- Everyone ought to rarefy his spiritual life.
- The next compartment was mainly a store-room, but, like all the others, could be used for observation purposes; next to that was a small compartment intended for a special purpose which will hereafter be apparent; then another containing water storage, apparatus for compressing or rarefying air, as well as machinery for producing the latter chemically. To Mars via The Moon An Astronomical Story
- The third type, clicks, use the velaric ingressive airstream mechanism, produced by rarefying a small volume of air enclosed in the mouth.
- Sound waves propagate through such materials by periodically compressing and rarefying the medium.
- [Illustration: Fig. 30 -- Rarefying osteitis wherein articular cartilage was destroyed in a case of arthritis of fetlock joint.] Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1
- And the South, rarefying, is changed into the East; but the Essays and Miscellanies
- Good again! the hot-water plate represents the land rarefying the air over it. No Name