About The Word Sophisticate
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Sophisticate
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What's The Definition Of Sophisticate?
[n] a worldly-wise person
[v] practice sophistry; change the meaning of or be vague about in order to mislead or deceive [v] make more complex or refined; "a sophisticated design" [v] alter and make impure, as with the intention to deceive; "Sophisticate rose water with geraniol" [v] make less natural or innocent; "Their manners had sophisticated the young girls" Synonyms | Synonyms for Sophisticate: convolute | doctor | doctor up | man of the world | pervert | twist | twist around Related Terms | Find terms related to Sophisticate: See Also | adult | adulterate | civilise | civilize | complicate | cosmopolitan | cosmopolite | cultivate | debase | denote | dilute | educate | elaborate | grownup | rarify | refer | refine | school | slicker | stretch | train Sophisticate In Webster's Dictionary \So*phis"ti*cate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p.
{Sophisticated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Sophisticating}.] [LL.
sophisticatus, p. p. of sophisticare to sophisticate.]
To render worthless by admixture; to adulterate; to damage;
to pervert; as, to sophisticate wine. --Howell.
To sophisticate the understanding. --Southey.
Yet Butler professes to stick to plain facts, not to
sophisticate, not to refine. --M. Arnold.
They purchase but sophisticated ware. --Dryden.
Syn: To adulterate; debase; corrupt; vitiate.
\So*phis"ti*cate\, Sophisticated |
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