CRETINIZING Antonyms

• processing a photosensitive material in order to make an image visible

• relating to societies in which capital needed to industrialize is in short supply

• tending to increase knowledge or dissipate ignorance

• enlightening or uplifting so as to encourage intellectual or moral improvement

• getting higher or more vigorous

• the process of removing impurities (as from oil or metals or sugar etc.)

• foster the growth of

• prepare for crops

• teach or refine to be discriminative in taste or judgment

• adapt (a wild plant or unclaimed land) to the environment

• give an education to

• create by training and teaching

• teach or refine to be discriminative in taste or judgment

• give a promotion to or assign to a higher position

• raise from a lower to a higher position

• raise in rank or condition

• increase the level of

• make better or more attractive

• a worldly-wise person

• make less natural or innocent

• practice sophistry; change the meaning of or be vague about in order to mislead or deceive

• alter and make impure, as with the intention to deceive

• make more complex or refined