rarefy

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

RAR'EFY, verb transitive [Latin rarefacio; rarus, rare, and facio, to make.] To make thin and porous or less dense; to expand or enlarge a body without adding to it any new portion of its own matter; opposed to condense. RAR'EFY, verb intransitive To become thin and porous.
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