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Sophisticate

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Noun

1. man of the world, sophisticate

a worldly-wise person

Verb

2. sophisticate

make less natural or innocent

Example Sentences:
'Their manners had sophisticated the young girls'

3. convolute, pervert, sophisticate, twist, twist around

practice sophistry; change the meaning of or be vague about in order to mislead or deceive

Example Sentences:
'Don't twist my words'

4. doctor, doctor up, sophisticate

alter and make impure, as with the intention to deceive

Example Sentences:
'Sophisticate rose water with geraniol'

5. sophisticate

make more complex or refined

Example Sentences:
'a sophisticated design'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Sophisticate

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verb (səˈfɪstɪˌkeɪt )
1. (transitive)
to make (someone) less natural or innocent, as by education
2. 
to pervert or corrupt (an argument, etc) by sophistry
3. (transitive)
to make more complex or refined
4. rare
to falsify (a text, etc) by alterations
noun (səˈfɪstɪˌkeɪt , -kɪt)
5. 
a sophisticated person

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Sophisticate

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noun
6. 
a sophisticated person
verb transitiveWord forms: soˈphistiˌcated or soˈphistiˌcating
1. 
to change from being natural, simple, artless, etc. to being artificial, worldly-wise, urbane, etc.
2. 
to bring to a more developed, complex, or refined form, technique, level, etc.
3.  Rare
to make impure by mixture or adulteration
4.  Archaic
to corrupt or mislead
verb intransitive
5.  Rare
to use sophistical reasoning

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Sophisticate

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v. so·phis·ti·cat·ed, so·phis·ti·cat·ing, so·phis·ti·cates
v.tr.
1. To cause to become less natural, especially to make less naive and more worldly: Travel tends to sophisticate a person.
2. To make more complex or refined: sophisticated the theory to take criticism into account.
3. Archaic
a. To mislead or corrupt (a person).
b. To make impure; adulterate.
v.intr.
Archaic
To use sophistry.
n. (-kĭt)
A sophisticated person.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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