Synonyms for refine
rɪˈfaɪn

Princeton's WordNet(2.67 / 3 votes)Rate these synonyms:

1. polish, refine, fine-tune, down(verb)

   improve or perfect by pruning or polishing

   "refine one's style of writing"

   Synonyms:
   land, push down, pull down, polish up, round off, down, go through, elaborate, belt down, rarify, drink down, round, shoot down, cut down, complicate, kill, toss off, smoothen, calibrate, bolt down, rectify, shine, brush up, graduate, tweak, pour down, smooth, pop, devour, fine-tune, knock down, consume, polish

2. complicate, refine, rarify, elaborate(verb)

   make more complex, intricate, or richer

   "refine a design or pattern"

   Synonyms:
   elaborate, perplex, lucubrate, exposit, polish, down, rarify, fine-tune, work out, rectify, dilate, expatiate, expand, expound, flesh out, complicate, enlarge

3. refine(verb)

   treat or prepare so as to put in a usable condition

   "refine paper stock"; "refine pig iron"; "refine oil"

   Synonyms:
   rectify, rarify, down, elaborate, complicate, polish, fine-tune

4. refine, rectify(verb)

   reduce to a fine, unmixed, or pure state; separate from extraneous matter or cleanse from impurities

   "refine sugar"

   Synonyms:
   elaborate, reclaim, right, regenerate, polish, down, rarify, fine-tune, correct, rectify, reform, amend, remedy, complicate, repair, remediate

5. refine(verb)

   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"

   Synonyms:
   rectify, rarify, down, elaborate, complicate, polish, fine-tune

6. refine(verb)

   make more precise or increase the discriminatory powers of

   "refine a method of analysis"; "refine the constant in the equation"

   Synonyms:
   rectify, rarify, down, elaborate, complicate, polish, fine-tune

English Synonyms and Antonyms(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate these synonyms:

1. refine

   Castigate and chastise refer strictly to corporal punishment, tho both are somewhat archaic; correct and punish are often used as euphemisms in preference to either. Punish is distinctly retributive in sense; chastise, partly retributive, and partly corrective; chasten, wholly corrective. Chasten is used exclusively in the spiritual sense, and chiefly of the visitation of God.

   Synonyms:
   afflict, castigate, chasten, chastise, correct, discipline, humble, punish, purify, soften, subdue, try

   Preposition:
   "We are chastened of the Lord," 1 Cor. xi, 32; "they ... chastened us after their own pleasure, but He for our profit," Heb. xii, 10; "chasten in thy hot displeasure," Ps. iv, 7; chasten with pain; by trials and sorrows.

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1. refine(v. a.)

   Synonyms:
   purify, clarify, fine, defecate

2. refine(v. a.)

   Synonyms:
   cultivate, polish, make elegant

3. refine(v. n.)

   Synonyms:
   become pure, be clarified

4. refine(v. n.)

   Synonyms:
   improve, make improvement

5. refine(v. n.)

   Synonyms:
   be over-nice, affect nicety, split hairs, make useless distinctions

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate these synonyms:

1. refine(v)

   Synonyms:
   purify, defecate, clarify, sublimate, subtilize, sublime, devulgarize, decrassify

PPDB, the paraphrase database(2.00 / 1 vote)Rate these paraphrases:

1. List of paraphrases for "refine":

   fine-tune, sharpen, improve, hone, refining, fine-tuning, specify, clarify, develop, improving, refined, enhance

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How to use refine in a sentence?

1. William Tecumseh Sherman:

   War is cruel and you cannot refine it.

2. One Democratic member:

   For some members this probably helps, but there a bunch of us who use this as guidance/suggestions for polling. And then refine a message that is better for our districts, the national leaders can do what they want. My job is to win and come back.

3. Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott:

   I don't know how accurate that will be but I dare say it will give us some more evidence and it might enable us to further refine the search area, it might.

4. Andrew Cuomo:

   The more we know, the more reliably we can achieve the goal of total harm minimization : the reduction of health and life lost both to the virus, and to societal collapse, to the irreducible minimum, we should proceed in stages because that enables us to adjust and refine, even as we make progress toward normalcy.

5. Adam Schiff:

   House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, D-Calif., arrives for a Democratic Caucus meeting in Washington back in March. Adam Schiff, the focus of Republicans' post-Mueller ire, says Mueller's conclusion would not affect his own committee's counterintelligence probes. ( AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) As both the special counsel and the Department of Justice have recognized, the Congress has a vital constitutional role in evaluating misconduct by the executive branch, including the president, and to assess and refine laws that address the sweeping and systematic invasion of our democracy by Russia, we therefore need these materials in order to do our job.

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