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v. - Weaken the consistency of (a chemical substance); Make more subtle or refined; Lessen the density or solidity of.

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  • Does moisture rarefy when heated?
  • 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...
  • 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,"...
  • 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...
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