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▸ verb:  (transitive)
▸ verb:  To make (something) less innocent or natural; to artificialize.
▸ verb:  To make (something) more sophisticated (“complex, developed, or refined”); to develop, to refine.
▸ verb:  (also reflexive) To make (oneself or someone) more sophisticated (“experienced in the ways of the world, that is, cosmopolitan or worldly-wise”); to cosmopolitanize.
▸ verb:  (also figuratively) To alter and make impure (something) by mixing it with some foreign or inferior substance, especially with an intention to deceive; to adulterate; (generally) to corrupt or deceive (someone, their thinking, etc.).
▸ verb:  To change the meaning of (something) in a deceptive or misleading way.
▸ verb:  (archaic) To apply an artificial technique to (something).
▸ verb:  (intransitive) To practise sophistry (“the (deliberate) making of arguments that seem plausible but are fallacious or misleading”).
▸ adjective:  Synonym of sophisticated (adjective)
▸ adjective:  Of a person: experienced in the ways of the world; cosmopolitan, worldly-wise.
▸ adjective:  Of art or other things: appealing to the tastes of an intellectual or sophisticated (sense 1.1) person; cerebral; also, cultured, elegant, refined.
▸ adjective:  (obsolete) Mixed with a foreign or inferior substance; not genuine or pure; adulterated, impure.
▸ adjective:  (obsolete) Of a thing: having its meaning changed in a deceptive or misleading way.
▸ noun:  A person who is sophisticated (“experienced in the ways of the world, that is, cosmopolitan or worldly-wise”), or who has sophisticated tastes.






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