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rarefy
verb
[ ˈrɛːrɪfʌɪ ]
• make or become less dense or solid.
• "air rarefies and degrounds the physical body"
Origin:
late Middle English: from Old French rarefier, or medieval Latin rareficare, based on Latin rarus ‘rare’ + facere ‘make’.
