refine
To purify; reduce to a fine, unmixed, or pure state; to free from impurities.
Example
“to refine gold”
Other meanings
To become pure; to be cleared of impure matter.
To purify of coarseness, vulgarity, inelegance, etc.; to polish.
“to refine someone's manners”
Synonyms
- fine-tune
- down
Related words
- electrorefine
- overrefine
- re-refine
- refinability
- superrefine
- unrefine
- refiningly
- rerefine
- refinable
- refinement
- refiner
- refinery
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “refine” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.