| VERB | change | refine, polish, fine-tune, down | improve or perfect by pruning or polishing |
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| change | refine, complicate, rarify, elaborate | make more complex, intricate, or richer | |
| change | refine | treat or prepare so as to put in a usable condition | |
| change | refine, rectify | reduce to a fine, unmixed, or pure state | |
| change | refine | attenuate or reduce in vigor, strength, or validity by polishing or purifying | |
| change | refine | make more precise or increase the discriminatory powers of |
| Sounds | rahfay'n; rihfay'n | |
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| Rhymes | affine ... wine: 145 rhymes with ayn... | |
| Meaning | improve or perfect by pruning or polishing. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody; Something ----s somebody | |
| Example | "refine one's style of writing" | |
| Synonyms | polish, fine-tune, down | |
| Narrower | educate, school, train, cultivate, civilize, civilise | Teach or refine to be discriminative in taste or judgment |
| overrefine, over-refine | refine too much or with excess of subtlety | |
| Broader | better, improve, amend, ameliorate, meliorate | To make better |
| Spanish | afinar, perfeccionar, pulimentar, pulir, refinar | |
| Catalan | afinar, polir, refinar | |
| Nouns | refinement | the result of improving something |
| refinement | a highly developed state of perfection | |
| refiner | one whose work is to refine a specific thing | |
| Meaning | make more complex, intricate, or richer. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something | |
| Example | "refine a design or pattern" | |
| Synonyms | complicate, rarify, elaborate | |
| Narrower | develop | elaborate by the unfolding of a musical idea and by the working out of the rhythmic and harmonic changes in the theme |
| involve | make complex or intricate or complicated | |
| sophisticate | make more complex or refined | |
| Broader | change, alter, modify | Cause to change |
| Spanish | complicar, refinar | |
| Catalan | complicar, elaborar, refinar | |
| Meaning | treat or prepare so as to put in a usable condition. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something | |
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| Broader | process, treat | subject to a process or treatment, with the aim of readying for some purpose, improving, or remedying a condition |
| Nouns | refinement | the process of removing impurities (as from oil or metals or sugar etc.) |
| refiner | one whose work is to refine a specific thing | |
| refinery | an industrial plant for purifying a crude substance | |
| Meaning | Reduce to a fine, unmixed, or pure state; separate from extraneous matter or cleanse from impurities. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something | |
| Example | "refine sugar" | |
| Synonym | rectify | |
| Broader | purify, sublimate, make pure, distill | Remove impurities from, increase the concentration of, and separate through the process of distillation |
| Spanish | refinar | |
| Catalan | refinar | |
| Nouns | refiner | one whose work is to refine a specific thing |
| refining, refinement | the process of removing impurities (as from oil or metals or sugar etc.) | |
| Meaning | attenuate or reduce in vigor, strength, or validity by polishing or purifying. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something | |
| Example | "many valuable nutrients are refined out of the foods in our modern diet" | |
| Broader | attenuate | Become weaker, in strength, value, or magnitude |
| Spanish | refinar | |
| Meaning | make more precise or increase the discriminatory powers of. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something | |
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| Broader | change, alter, modify | Cause to change |
| Nouns | refinement | a subtle difference in meaning or opinion or attitude |
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