refines
refines is the third-person singular simple present indicative of refine.
Meaning of refine
Verb
refine (third-person singular simple present refines, present participle refining, simple past and past participle refined)
- To purify; reduce to a fine, unmixed, or pure state; to free from impurities.
- to refine gold
- To become pure; to be cleared of impure matter.
- To purify of coarseness, vulgarity, inelegance, etc.; to polish.
- to refine someone's manners
- To improve in accuracy, delicacy, or excellence.
- My dear Harriet, you must not refine too much upon this charade.—You will betray your feelings improperly, if you are too conscious and too quick, and appear to affix more meaning, or even quite all the meaning which may be affixed to it.1815, Jane Austen, Emma, volume I, chapter 9
- To make nice or subtle.
- to refine thought
Words that rhyme with refines
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- argentines
- bines
- bread lines
- breadlines
- brines
- carbines
- clementines
- co-signs
- coal mines
- coalmines
- colour outside the lines
- cosigns
- cosines
- defines
- designs
- dines
- fine lines
- fuel lines
- gas lines
- kines
- maligns
- mines
- misdefines
- ninety-nines
- number nines
- overdefines
- overlines
- overmines
- pines
- redefines
- relines
- serpentines
- shines
- shrines
- signs
- sixty-nines
- spines
- sublines
- telephone lines
- turpentines
- undefines
- underdefines
- underlines
- undermines
- vines
- water lines
- waterlines
- whines
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