SOPHISTICATE
- to make artificial or worldly [v SOPHISTICATED, SOPHISTICATING, SOPHISTICATES]
- Cause (a person or their thoughts, attitudes, and expectations) to become less simple or straightforward through education or experience
- Develop (something such as a piece of equipment or a technique) into a more complex form
- Talk or reason in an impressively complex and educated manner
- Mislead or corrupt (a person, an argument, the mind, etc.) by sophistry