Found 3 items, similar to sophisticate.
English → Indonesian (quick)
Definition: sophisticate
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English → English (WordNet)
Definition: sophisticate
sophisticate
n : a worldly-wise person [syn:
man of the world]
v 1: make less natural or innocent;
“Their manners had
sophisticated the young girls”
2: practice sophistry; change the meaning of or be vague about
in order to mislead or deceive [syn:
twist,
twist around
,
pervert,
convolute]
3: alter and make impure, as with the intention to deceive;
“Sophisticate rose water with geraniol” [syn:
doctor,
doctor up
]
4: make more complex or refined;
“a sophisticated design”
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Sophisticate
Sophisticate
\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.
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To sophisticate the understanding. --Southey.
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Yet Butler professes to stick to plain facts, not to
sophisticate, not to refine. --M. Arnold.
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They purchase but sophisticated ware. --Dryden.
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Syn: To adulterate; debase; corrupt; vitiate.
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Sophisticate
\So*phis"ti*cate\, Sophisticated
\So*phis"ti*ca`ted\, a.
Adulterated; not pure; not genuine.
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So truth, while only one supplied the state,
Grew scare and dear, and yet sophisticate. --Dryden.
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