Crossword-Solution: REFINE 6 letters, 68 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

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Word Word Type Definition
Refine v. t. To reduce to a fine, unmixed, or pure state; to free
from impurities; to free from dross or alloy; to separate from
extraneous matter; to purify; to defecate; as, to refine gold or
silver; to refine iron; to refine wine or sugar.
Refine v. t. To purify from what is gross, coarse, vulgar, inelegant,
low, and the like; to make elegant or exellent; to polish; as, to
refine the manners, the language, the style, the taste, the intellect,
or the moral feelings.
Refine v. i. To become pure; to be cleared of feculent matter.
Refine v. i. To improve in accuracy, delicacy, or excellence.
Refine v. i. To affect nicety or subtilty in thought or language.

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REFINE anagram FERINE, FERNIE

We have 68 clues for the answer “REFINE”

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make more precise or increase the discriminatory powers of 1 answer
Bring out the best of 1 answer
Cleanse from impurities 1 answer
Do what Higgins attempted 1 answer
Impart polish to. 1 answer
Improve, as one's manners 1 answer
Make genteel 1 answer
Make metal from ore 1 answer
Make more elegant 1 answer
Make pure, as sugar 1 answer
Make some adjustments 1 answer
Improve by making purer 1 answer
Process, as sugar 1 answer
Processe ore 1 answer
REDUCE to fine state 1 answer
Render purer 1 answer
Work ore 1 answer
Make small improvements to 1 answer
Make Pure 2 answers
REMOVE impurities 2 answers
Free from impurities. 2 answers
DEFAECATE 3 answers
distill 3 answers
Remove impurities from 4 answers
make improvements 4 answers
rarefy 6 answers
LESSEN solubility of 7 answers
MAKE slender 7 answers
MAKE thin 8 answers
Hone 10 answers
DISTILL ILLEGALLY 10 answers
flow through 12 answers
Tweak 17 answers
Smelt 18 answers
Aerate 19 answers
Sharpen 23 answers
Seep 24 answers
Groom 31 answers
Decontaminate 34 answers
Launder 37 answers
irradiate 38 answers
civilise 42 answers
sieve 42 answers
recondition 43 answers
Emend 44 answers
make glossy 45 answers
Overhaul 50 answers
Purify 50 answers
clarify 50 answers
Elevate 50 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with REFINE (5)

Thus, a user can refine the search as he or she reads, re-executing the search and continuing to find things in the quest for materials.
LOC Workshop on Electronic Texts Library of Congress 1993
Its tendency would be to raise and refine her mind—and it must be saving her from the danger of degradation.
Emma Jane Austen 1994
Rowland saw no reason to regard this as a menace of dissipation, because, in the first place, there was in all dissipation, refine it as one might, a grossness which would disqualify it for Roderick’s favor, and because, in the second, the young sculptor was a man to regard all things in the light of his art, to hand over his passions to his genius to be dealt with, and to find that he could live largely enough without exceeding the circle of wholesome curiosity.
Roderick Hudson Henry James 2006
Stare at me well, ay, stare! The Ballad of the Black Fox Skin There was Claw-fingered Kitty and Windy Ike living the life of shame, The Ballad of Pious Pete I tried to refine that neighbor of mine, honest to God, I did.
Ballads of a Cheechako Robert W. Service 2008
Mere conchs! not fit for warp or woof! Till cunning come to pound and squeeze And clarify,--refine to proof *2* The liquor filtered by degrees, While the world stands aloof.
Introduction to Robert Browning Hiram Corson 2008

Quotes with REFINE (3)

Tough times don't define you, they refine you. ‪
Carlos A. Rodriguez Designed For Inheritance: A Discovery of Sonship
We are in God’s hands. We can’t come up with a surprise big enough or a sin vile enough to thwart His plan. If we allow Him to refine us we will inevitably end up free from the impurities that separate us from Him.
Toni Sorenson
Your Life Purpose is a blend of your Core Personality Needs. Remember it, define it and refine it as you journey through life.
Diana Dentinger Modus Vivendi: Your Life Your Way
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.

Used 47 times in crossword archives (1964–2024).