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sophisticate

C2 verb

sophisticate /səˈfɪstɪkeɪt/ nghĩa là làm mất vẻ tự nhiên, làm giả tạo

Các nghĩa

  1. làm mất vẻ tự nhiên, làm giả tạo

    To make (something) less innocent or natural; to artificialize.

    transitive

  2. làm tinh vi, làm phức tạp, cải tiến

    To make (something) more sophisticated (“complex, developed, or refined”); to develop, to refine.

    transitive

  3. làm cho từng trải, làm cho sành đời

    To make (oneself or someone) more sophisticated (“experienced in the ways of the world, that is, cosmopolitan or worldly-wise”); to cosmopolitanize.

    also · reflexive · transitive

  4. pha tạp, làm giả, làm bẩn

    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.).

    also · figuratively · transitive

    How be it, it were harde to construe this lecture; Sophisticatid craftely is many a confecture; […]

    This is my friend, Abel, an honeſt fellow, He let me haue good Tobacco, and he do's not Sophiſticate it, with Sack-lees, or Oyle, […]

    to mingle or sophisticate any Wine here

  5. xuyên tạc, bóp méo ý nghĩa

    To change the meaning of (something) in a deceptive or misleading way.

    transitive

  6. ngụy biện

    To practise sophistry (“the (deliberate) making of arguments that seem plausible but are fallacious or misleading”).

    intransitive

    The benevolence of her heart taught her, in this inſtance, to ſophiſticate.

    Yet [Joseph] Butler professes to stick to plain facts, not to sophisticate, not to refine.

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