Usually means: Make less dense or thinner.
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  1. rarefy: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. rarefy: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. rarefy: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. rarefy: Collins English Dictionary
  5. rarefy: Vocabulary.com
  6. rarefy: Wordnik
  7. rarefy: Wiktionary
  8. rarefy: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. rarefy: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. rarefy: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. rarefy: Dictionary.com
  12. rarefy: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Rarefy: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. rarefy: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. rarefy: Rhymezone
  16. Rarefy: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. rarefy: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. rarefy: Free Dictionary
  19. rarefy: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. rarefy: Dictionary/thesaurus

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. rarefy: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Rarefy: MedFriendly Glossary
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Definitions from Wiktionary (rarefy)

verb:  (transitive) To make rare, thin, porous, or less dense.
verb:  (intransitive) To become rare, thin or less dense.

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