rarefy

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Although these sculptures pay tribute to commercialism, they rarefy it to something austere — or at least as austere as anything with pulsing green lights can be.

From Washington Post • Apr. 19, 2018

Of course it’s serious, and art is serious, but I’m not going to rarefy it.”

From New York Times • Dec. 16, 2011

It contains moist air and a movable diaphragm or piston to rarefy it suddenly.

From Time Magazine Archive

The echoes shrieked and barked, the hissing balls seemed actually to rarefy the air, and then opaque smoke filled the vault.

From The Man in the Iron Mask by Dumas père, Alexandre

The hot air in the smoke flues will warm the separating brick partition, and consequently rarefy the air in the ventilating flue.

From A Treatise on Anatomy, Physiology, and Hygiene (Revised Edition) by Cutter, Calvin