Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb refract

2 senses of refract

Sense 1
refract -- (subject to refraction; "refract a light beam")
       => subject -- (cause to experience or suffer or make liable or vulnerable to; "He subjected me to his awful poetry"; "The sergeant subjected the new recruits to many drills"; "People in Chernobyl were subjected to radiation")

Sense 2
refract -- (determine the refracting power of (a lens))
       => determine, find, find out, ascertain -- (establish after a calculation, investigation, experiment, survey, or study; "find the product of two numbers"; "The physicist who found the elusive particle won the Nobel Prize")