Refine

Quick meaning: Refine is a verb meaning (transitive) To purify; reduce to a fine, unmixed, or pure state; to free from impurities.

Meaning

(transitive) To purify; reduce to a fine, unmixed, or pure state; to free from impurities.

More Meanings

1. (intransitive) To become pure; to be cleared of impure matter.
2. (transitive) To purify of coarseness, vulgarity, inelegance, etc.; to polish.
3. (ambitransitive) To improve in accuracy, delicacy, or excellence.
4. (transitive) To make nice or subtle.

Example Sentences

to refine gold

to refine iron

to refine wine

to refine sugar

Word Forms

• refines
• refining
• refined

Synonyms for refine

Depending on context, synonyms include elaborate, down, polish, complicate, fine-tune, rarify.

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Related dictionary entries include down, complicate, elaborate, fine-tune, rarify, polish.

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