fined
Meaning of fined
- clarify (beer or wine) by causing the precipitation of sediment during production.
- make or become thinner.
she'd certainly fined down —her face was thinner
- (of the weather) become bright and clear.
Middle English: from Old French fin, based on Latin finire ‘to finish’ (see finish).
verb, past tense- punish (someone) for an illegal or illicit act by making them pay a sum of money.
she was fined £1500 for driving offences
Middle English: from Old French fin ‘end, payment’, from Latin finis ‘end’ (in medieval Latin denoting a sum paid on settling a lawsuit). The original sense was ‘conclusion’ (surviving in the phrase in fine); also used in the medieval Latin sense, the word came to denote a penalty of any kind, later specifically a monetary penalty.
Information about fined
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Hyphenation of fined
fined
- It consists of 1 syllables and 5 chars.
- fined is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
fined synonyms
Meaning penalized:
Meaning melt (butter) in order to separate out the water and milk solids:
Meaning remove an obstruction or unwanted item or items from:
Meaning remove contaminants from:
Meaning remove impurities or unwanted elements from (a substance), typically as part of an industrial process:
Meaning pass (a liquid, gas, light, or sound) through a device to remove unwanted material:
Meaning make or become less dense, crowded, or numerous:
Meaning become or make less wide:
Meaning diminish or reduce in thickness towards one end:
Meaning reduce the force, effect, or value of:
Meaning make narrower, especially by encircling pressure:
Meaning make or become narrow:
Meaning subject to a penalty or punishment:
Meaning demand (an amount) as a price for a service rendered or goods supplied:
Meaning wound or pierce with a sting:
Meaning extract money from (someone) by fine or taxation:
Meaning punish with a fine:
Anagrams of fined
Fedin, Fiden, Fiend, fiend, INFeD
Words that rhyme with fined
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