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What does rarefy mean?

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Verb
  1. To make rare, thin, porous, or less dense
  2. To expand or enlarge without adding any new portion of matter to.
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Almost everyone fails on them: supersede, naphtha, tranquillity, liquefy, sacrilegious, kimono, paraffin, rarefy, picnicking, battalion.
The primary activity of warmth is to move fast and to dilate and rarefy matter, whereas that of cold is to hinder movement and to condense matter.
The rarefy of the atmosphere continued to affect the wood-work of the wagons, and the wheels were incessantly falling to pieces.
In this panorama, not only that the sense of universality does not rarefy, it is, indeed, drawn by deeper breaths.
The air consequently was damp and gross, for want of stronger rays to open and rarefy it.
Would an atmosphere perfumed by these Eastern woods clarify and rarefy our denser Occidental minds?

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