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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Verb refine has 6 senses

• refine(v = verb.change) down, fine-tune, polish - improve or perfect by pruning or polishing; "refine one's style of writing"
is one way to ameliorate, amend, better, improve, meliorate
Derived forms noun refinement₂, noun refinement₁, noun refiner₁
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody

• refine(v = verb.change) complicate, elaborate, rarify - make more complex, intricate, or richer; "refine a design or pattern"
is one way to alter, change, modify
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

• refine(v = verb.change) - treat or prepare so as to put in a usable condition; "refine paper stock"; "refine pig iron"; "refine oil"
is one way to process, treat
Derived forms noun refinement₃, noun refiner₁, noun refinery₁
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

• refine(v = verb.change) rectify - reduce to a fine, unmixed, or pure state; separate from extraneous matter or cleanse from impurities; "refine sugar"
is one way to distill, make pure, purify, sublimate
Derived forms noun refinement₃, noun refiner₁, noun refining₁
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

• refine(v = verb.change) - attenuate or reduce in vigor, strength, or validity by polishing or purifying; "many valuable nutrients are refined out of the foods in our modern diet"
is one way to attenuate
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

• refine(v = verb.change) - make more precise or increase the discriminatory powers of; "refine a method of analysis"; "refine the constant in the equation"
is one way to alter, change, modify
Derived form noun refinement₄
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

CIDE DICTIONARY

OXFORD DICTIONARY

THESAURUS

refine

abate, abrade, abstract, acculturate, advance, ameliorate, amend, bate, beautify, better, bolt, boost, bring forward, carve, chisel, civilize, clarify, cleanse, clear, colliquate, concentrate, convert, cultivate, curtail, decoct, decontaminate, decrassify, decrease, deduct, defrost, depreciate, depurate, derogate, detract, develop, diminish, disparage, distill, drain, eat away, edify, educate, edulcorate, elaborate, elevate, elute, embellish, emend, enhance, enlighten, enrich, erode, essentialize, evolve, excite, express, extract, fatten, favor, file away, filter, filtrate, finish, flux, focus, forward, foster, fuse, go straight, grow, harvest, hone, impair, improve, improve upon, infuse, lard, leach, lessen, lift, lixiviate, machine, make an improvement, make sensitive, mature, meliorate, melt, melt down, mend, mill, mine, narrow, nurture, oversimplify, percolate, perfect, polish, press out, process, promote, pump, purify, quicken, raise, rear, rectify, reduce, reduce to elements, refine upon, reform, remove, render, retrench, ripen, round, rub away, run, screen, season, sensibilize, sensitize, separate, sharpen, shorten, sieve, sift, simplify, sleek, slick, smelt, smooth, soak, socialize, spiritualize, steep, stimulate, stir, straighten out, strain, streamline, strip down, subduct, sublimate, sublime, subtilize, subtract, take away, take from, thaw, thin, thin out, transfigure, transform, try, unfreeze, upgrade, uplift, wear away, weed, whet, winnow, withdraw, wring, wring out

ROGET THESAURUS

refine

Cleanness

VB be clean, render clean, clean, cleanse, mundify, rinse, wring, flush, full, wipe, mop, sponge, scour, swab, scrub, brush up, wash, lave, launder, buck, absterge, deterge, decrassify, clear, purify, depurate, despumate, defecate, purge, expurgate, elutriate, lixiviate, edulcorate, clarify, refine, rack, filter, filtrate, drain, strain, disinfect, fumigate, ventilate, deodorize, whitewash, castrate, emasculate, sift, winnow, pick, weed, comb, rake, brush, sweep, rout out, clear out, sweep out, make a clean sweep of.

& Sophistry

VB judge intuitively, judge by intuition, hazard a proposition, hazard a guess, talk at random, reason ill, falsely, misjudge, paralogize, take on faith, take as a given, assume (supposition), pervert, quibble, equivocate, mystify, evade, elude, gloss over, varnish, misteach, mislead, cavil, refine, subtilize, split hairs, misrepresent, beg the question, reason in a circle, reason in circles, assume the conclusion, cut blocks with a razor, beat about the bush, play fast and loose, play fast and loose with the facts, blow hot and cold, prove that black is white and white black, travel out of the record, parler a tort et a travers, put oneself out of court, not have a leg to stand on, judge hastily, shoot from the hip, jump to conclusions (misjudgment).

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