sophisticate

IPA: sʌfˈɪstʌkeɪt

A person who is sophisticated (“experienced in the ways of the world, that is, cosmopolitan or worldly-wise”), or who has sophisticated tastes.

(transitive)
To make (something) less innocent or natural; to artificialize.
To make (something) more sophisticated (“complex, developed, or refined”); to develop, to refine.
(also reflexive) To make (oneself or someone) more sophisticated (“experienced in the ways of the world, that is, cosmopolitan or worldly-wise”); to cosmopolitanize.
(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.).
To change the meaning of (something) in a deceptive or misleading way.
(archaic) To apply an artificial technique to (something).
(intransitive) To practise sophistry (“the (deliberate) making of arguments that seem plausible but are fallacious or misleading”).

Synonym of sophisticated (adjective)
Of a person: experienced in the ways of the world; cosmopolitan, worldly-wise.
Of art or other things: appealing to the tastes of an intellectual or sophisticated (sense 1.1) person; cerebral; also, cultured, elegant, refined.
(obsolete) Mixed with a foreign or inferior substance; not genuine or pure; adulterated, impure.
(obsolete) Of a thing: having its meaning changed in a deceptive or misleading way.

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