Synonyms for refine

Grammar : Verb

Spell : ri-fahyn

Phonetic Transcription : rɪˈfaɪn

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Définition of refine

Origin : 1580s, of metals, c.1590 of manners, from re-, intensive prefix, + obsolete fine (v.) "make fine," from fine (adj.) "delicate." Cf. French raffiner, Italian raffinare, Spanish refinar. General and figurative sense is recorded from 1590s; of sugar, from 1610s. Related: Refined; refining.

verb purify
verb perfect, polish

Example sentences :

But the butcher had a sentiment for his business, and knew how to refine upon it.
Extract from : « Life And Adventures Of Martin Chuzzlewit » by Charles Dickens

Resist it not; it goes to refine and raise thy theory of matter just as much.
Extract from : « Essays, First Series » by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Loving is an art, and we all need to learn the art and to refine its practice.
Extract from : « Herein is Love » by Reuel L. Howe

Beer does not refine, perhaps,97 but at any rate it mellows.
Extract from : « Europe After 8:15 » by H. L. Mencken, George Jean Nathan and Willard Huntington Wright

For the necessity for concentration only serves to strengthen and refine her aspiration.
Extract from : « The Heart of Nature » by Francis Younghusband

Workers separate the product from the earth, transport it, refine it, fabricate it.
Extract from : « The American Empire » by Scott Nearing

They will rescue him; they will refine the vileness out of him.
Extract from : « Following the Equator, Complete » by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)

Incidentally the novel may teach, encourage, refine, elevate.
Extract from : « The Complete Essays of C. D. Warner » by Charles Dudley Warner

To reclaim from a savage or barbarous state; to educate; to refine.
Extract from : « The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft, Volume 2 » by Hubert Howe Bancroft

A definite movement was on to refine the language by foreign decorations.
Extract from : « The Greatest English Classic » by Cleland Boyd McAfee

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