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refine
verb refined, refining
- 1. To make something pure by removing dirt, waste substances, etc.
tr & intr
2. To become or make something more elegant, polished or subtle.
- Thesaurus: cultivate, civilize, polish, enhance, improve, perfect, hone, temper, purify, rarefy, elevate.
noun
- Very polite; well-mannered; elegant.
- Thesaurus: sophisticated, cultivated, urbane, well-mannered, courtly, gracious, genteel, gentlemanly, ladylike, polite, polished, discriminating; Antonym: coarse, rude, vulgar.
- With all the dirt, waste substances, etc removed.
- Improved; polished.
adverb
noun
- The act or process of refining.
- Good manners or good taste; polite speech; elegance.
- An improvement or perfection.
- A subtle distinction.
noun
