Refine ¹

Definition: To reduce to a fine, unmixed, or pure state; to free from impurities; to free from dross or alloy; to separate from extraneous matter; to purify; to defecate; as, to refine gold or silver; to refine iron; to refine wine or sugar.

Refine ²

Definition: To purify from what is gross, coarse, vulgar, inelegant, low, and the like; to make elegant or exellent; to polish; as, to refine the manners, the language, the style, the taste, the intellect, or the moral feelings.

Refine ³

Definition: To become pure; to be cleared of feculent matter.

Refine ⁴

Definition: To improve in accuracy, delicacy, or excellence.

Refine ⁵

Definition: To affect nicety or subtilty in thought or language.

refine ⁶

Definition: make more complex, intricate, or richer; "refine a design or pattern"

refine ⁷

Definition: make more precise or increase the discriminatory powers of; "refine a method of analysis"; "refine the constant in the equation"

refine ⁸

Definition: 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"

refine ⁹

Definition: improve or perfect by pruning or polishing; "refine one''s style of writing"

refine ¹⁰

Definition: reduce to a fine, unmixed, or pure state; separate from extraneous matter or cleanse from impurities; "refine sugar"

refine ¹¹

Definition: treat or prepare so as to put in a usable condition; "refine paper stock"; "refine pig iron"; "refine oil"