Wiktionary:Word of the day/2022/December 9

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Word of the day
for December 9
sophisticate v
  1. (transitive)
    1. To make (something) less innocent or natural; to artificialize.
    2. To make (something) more sophisticated (“complex, developed, or refined”); to develop, to refine.
    3. (also reflexive) To make (oneself or someone) more sophisticated (“experienced in the ways of the world, that is, cosmopolitan or worldly-wise”); to cosmopolitanize.
    4. (also figuratively) To alter and make impure (something) by mixing it with some foreign or inferior substance, especially with an intention to deceive; to adulterate; (generally) to corrupt or deceive (someone, their thinking, etc.).
    5. To change the meaning of (something) in a deceptive or misleading way.
    6. (archaic) To apply an artificial technique to (something).
  2. (intransitive) To practise sophistry (“the (deliberate) making of arguments that seem plausible but are fallacious or misleading”). [...]
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