Rarefy

Quick meaning: Rarefy is a verb meaning (transitive) To make rare, thin, porous, or less dense.

Meaning

(transitive) To make rare, thin, porous, or less dense.

More Meanings

1. (intransitive) To become rare, thin or less dense.

Example Sentences

Given the high quantity of water molecules in the human body it is worthy of note at this point that moisture rarefies when heated.[…]

As water rarefies, it evaporates, forming visible steam, and this may be a step toward the final category of reality, fire. Anyone who has held a hand over a boiling kettle may feel the truth of this.[…]

By means of this gauge, Mr. Smeaton judged that his machine was incomparably better than any former one, as it seemed to rarefy the air in the receiver 1000, or even 2000 times, while the best of these only rarefied it about 140[…]

For if The^([sic]) water rarefies and then Condenses, all that great mass of water of the Lake of the Ilinois rises in its vast basin when it rarefies, and falls when it condenses. And, as water always rises as much as it falls, it would[…]

Word Forms

• rarefies
• rarefying
• rarefied
• rarify

Synonyms for rarefy

Depending on context, synonyms include stretch, sublimate, attenuate, subtilize.

Antonyms for rarefy

Common opposites include condense.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include attenuate, subtilize, sublimate, rarify, subtiliate, rarefact.

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