refine
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refine
- /ɹɪˈfaɪn/
Rhymes with -aɪn
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Proto-Italic *wre-
Latin re-der.
Old French re-bor.
Middle English re-
English re-
English fine
English refine
From re- + fine.
verb refines · refining · refined
- To purify; reduce to a fine, unmixed, or pure state; to free from impurities. to refine gold
- To become pure; to be cleared of impure matter.
- To purify of coarseness, vulgarity, inelegance, etc.; to polish. to refine someone's manners
- To improve in accuracy, delicacy, or excellence. My dear Harriet, you must not refine too much upon this charade.—You will betray your feelings improperly, if you are too conscious and too quick, and appear to affix more meaning, or even quite all the meaning which may be affixed to it.
- To make nice or subtle. to refine thought
