refine

Meaning of refine

verb
  1. To purify; reduce to a fine, unmixed, or pure state; to free from impurities.
    to refine gold
  2. To become pure; to be cleared of impure matter.
  3. To purify of coarseness, vulgarity, inelegance, etc.; to polish.
    a refined style
  4. To improve in accuracy, delicacy, or excellence.
  5. To make nice or subtle.
    to refine someone's language

Information about refine

Hyphenation of refine

re-fine

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 6 chars.
  • refine is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

refine synonyms

Meaning polish:

polish, down

Meaning complicate:

complicate, rarify, elaborate

Meaning rectify:

rectify

Translation of refine

Anagrams of refine

enfire, feerin, ferine, fineer, infere

Words that rhyme with refine

Fine, fine, Biafine, Safine, Serafine, butenafine, extrafine, suprafine, terbinafine, ultrafine, cyclodiolefine, cycloolefine, define, diolefine, electrorefine, foredefine, misdefine, nauclefine, nicotinoylnauclefine, olefine, overrefine, predefine, prefine, prerefine, redefine, serrefine, superrefine, triolefine, undefine, unrefine, acecaffine, affine, giraffine, paraffine, Fifine, naftifine, pifine, raloxifine, semifine, Delfine, amorolfine, sulfine, confine, preconfine, reconfine, unconfine, unfine, camylofine, hyperfine, overfine

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