Rarefy
101widen — Synonyms and related words: accrue, accumulate, add to, advance, aggrandize, amplify, appreciate, augment, balloon, bloat, blow up, boom, branch, branch out, breed, broaden, build, build up, bulk, bulk out, crescendo, deal in generalities, deepen …
102rarity — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Sparseness Nouns 1. rarity, tenuity, subtlety, thinness, lightness, compressibility; rarefaction, attenuation, dilatation, inflation. See vapor. 2. rareness, scarcity, uncommonness, infrequency,… …
103refine — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. t. purify, cleanse, educate, improve, polish, cultivate, elaborate. See purity, improvement. II (Roget s IV) v. 1. [To purify] Syn. rarefy, strain, filter, clarify; see clean , filter 2 , purify . 2.… …
104dilute — I (Roget s IV) v. Syn. water down, reduce, thin; see adulterate , weaken 2 . II (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) v. thin, water down, reduce, weaken, diminish, rarefy, attenuate, *cut, adulterate, moderate. ANT.: concentrate, enrich, strengthen III… …
105Expansion — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Expansion >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 expansion expansion Sgm: N 1 increase increase &c. 35 of size Sgm: N 1 enlargement enlargement extension augmentation Sgm: N 1 amplification amplification …
106stupefied, stupefaction — All too often misspelled, as here: The 57 year old evangelist denies four charges of rape and three of administering a stupifying drug (Independent). Dont confuse the spelling with stupid. A similar erroneous exchange of i for e often happens… …
107stupefied, stupefaction — All too often misspelled, as here: The 57 year old evangelist denies four charges of rape and three of administering a stupifying drug (Independent). Dont confuse the spelling with stupid. A similar erroneous exchange of i for e often happens… …
108attenuate — v. a. Thin, rarefy, make thin, make rare, make slender, slim, or spare, render thread like, draw out, lessen, diminish, reduce …
109subtilize — I. v. a. 1. Make thin. 2. Rarefy, etherealize. 3. Refine excessively, make over nice. II. v. n. Refine, be over nice …
110thin — I. a. 1. Not thick (in measure). 2. Slender, slim, meagre, lean, poor, gaunt, scraggy, skinny, lank, scrawny, shrunk, emaciated. 3. Meagre, poor, slender, not well grown. 4. Fine, slender, small, tenuous, delicate, thread like, fine spun. 5. Rare …
