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

5 senses of stratify

Sense 1
stratify -- (divide society into social classes or castes; "Income distribution often stratifies a society")
       => distinguish, separate, differentiate, secern, secernate, severalize, severalise, tell, tell apart -- (mark as different; "We distinguish several kinds of maple")

Sense 2
stratify -- (form layers or strata; "The rock stratifies")
       => arrange, set up -- (put into a proper or systematic order; "arrange the books on the shelves in chronological order")

Sense 3
stratify -- (develop different social levels, classes, or castes; "Society stratifies when the income gap widens")
       => change -- (undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature; "She changed completely as she grew older"; "The weather changed last night")

Sense 4
stratify -- (form, arrange, or deposit in layers; "The fish are stratified in barrels"; "The rock was stratified by the force of the water"; "A statistician stratifies the list of names according to the addresses")
       => put, set, place, pose, position, lay -- (put into a certain place or abstract location; "Put your things here"; "Set the tray down"; "Set the dogs on the scent of the missing children"; "Place emphasis on a certain point")

Sense 5
stratify -- (render fertile and preserve by placing between layers of earth or sand; "stratify seeds")
       => inseminate, fecundate, fertilize, fertilise -- (introduce semen into (a female))