Crossword-Solution: REFINE
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| 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. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| REFINE | anagram | FERINE, FERNIE |
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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.
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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.
Its tendency would be to raise and refine her mind—and it must be saving her from the danger of degradation.
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.
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.
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.
Quotes with REFINE (3)
Tough times don't define you, they refine you.
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.
Your Life Purpose is a blend of your Core Personality Needs. Remember it, define it and refine it as you journey through life.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 47 times in crossword archives (1964–2024).