Synonyms for Refine:

v.
• better
- Re-forming
- be sting
- be-sting
- ex celled
- ex celling
- ex-celled
- ex-celling
- out shine
- out shined
- out shines
- out shining
- out shone
- out strip
- out stripped
- out stripping
- out strips
- out-shine
- out-shined
- out-shines
- out-shining
- out-shone
- out-strip
- out-stripped
- out-stripping
- out-strips
- pro moting
- pro-mote
- pro-motes
- pro-moting
- re fine
- re fined
- re fines
- re form
- re formed
- re forming
- re forms
- re vamp
- re vamped
- re vamping
- re vamps
- re-fine
- re-fines
- re-fining
- re-forms
- re-vamp
- re-vamped
- re-vamping
- re-vamps
- sur pass
- sur passed
- sur passes
- sur-pass
- sur-passed
- sur-passes
- sur-passing
• change
- refine
• civilize
- ethicized
- ethicizes
- ethicizing
- helped forward
- helping forward
- helps forward
- in form
- in forming
- in forms
- in-forming
- in-forms
- re claim
- re claimed
- re claiming
- re claims
- re-claimed
- re-claiming
- re-claims
- spiritualizes
- up lift
- up lifted
- up lifting
- up lifts
- up-lift
- up-lifted
- up-lifting
- up-lifts
• clean
- Deterged
- Elutriated
- absterged
- absterges
- absterging
- de odorize
- de odorized
- de odorizes
- de odorizing
- de-odorize
- de-odorized
- de-odorizes
- de-odorizing
- deterges
- dis infect
- dis infected
- dis infecting
- dis infects
- dis-infect
- dis-infected
- dis-infecting
- dis-infects
- elutriates
- routed out
- routs out
- shakes out
- shaking out
- shook out
- straightening up
- tidies up
• cleanse
- Re-store
- depurgated
- depurgates
- depurgating
- re store
- re stored
- re stores
- re storing
- re-stored
- re-stores
- re-storing
• clear
- burned off
- burning off
- burns off
- burnt off
- dis encumber
- dis encumbered
- dis encumbering
- dis encumbers
- dis engage
- dis engaged
- dis engages
- dis engaging
- dis entangle
- dis entangled
- dis entangles
- dis entangling
- dis-encumber
- dis-encumbered
- dis-encumbering
- dis-encumbers
- dis-engage
- dis-engaged
- dis-engages
- dis-engaging
- dis-entangle
- dis-entangled
- dis-entangles
- dis-entangling
- un burden
- un burdened
- un burdening
- un burdens
- un clog
- un clogged
- un clogging
- un clogs
- un load
- un loaded
- un loading
- un loads
- un loose
- un loosed
- un looses
- un loosing
- un pack
- un packed
- un packing
- un packs
- un tied
- un tying
- un-burden
- un-burdened
- un-burdening
- un-burdens
- un-clog
- un-clogged
- un-clogging
- un-clogs
- un-load
- un-loaded
- un-loading
- un-loads
- un-loose
- un-loosed
- un-looses
- un-loosing
- un-pack
- un-packed
- un-packing
- un-packs
- un-tied
- un-tying
- unclogs
• complete
- bring fruition
- bring maturity
- bringing fruition
- bringing maturity
- bringing to maturity
- brings fruition
- brings maturity
- brings to fruition
- brings to maturity
- brought fruition
- brought maturity
- brought to fruition
- brought to maturity
- call day
- call it day
- called a day
- called day
- called it a day
- called it day
- calling a day
- calling day
- calling it a day
- calling it day
- calls a day
- calls day
- calls it a day
- calls it day
- carries off
- carrying off
- did thoroughly
- didst thoroughly
- dis charge
- dis charged
- dis charges
- dis charging
- dis-charge
- dis-charged
- dis-charges
- dis-charging
- does thoroughly
- doest thoroughly
- doeth thoroughly
- doing thoroughly
- dost thoroughly
- doth thoroughly
- gat through
- gets through
- getting through
- go limit
- goes limit
- goes the limit
- goes through with
- goes whole hog
- going limit
- going the limit
- going through with
- going whole hog
- gotten through
- makes good
- put bed
- puts bed
- puts to bed
- putting bed
- putting to bed
- rounds out
- sewing up
- sews up
- went limit
- went the limit
- went through with
- went whole hog
• cultivate
- devoted oneself to
- devotes oneself to
- devotes to
- devoting oneself to
- devoting to
- gat good side of
- gat in with
- gat next to
- gat on good side of
- gat with
- get good side of
- get with
- gets good side of
- gets in with
- gets next to
- gets on good side of
- gets with
- getting good side of
- getting in with
- getting next to
- getting on good side of
- getting with
- got good side of
- got in with
- got next to
- got on good side of
- got with
- gotten good side of
- gotten in with
- gotten next to
- gotten on good side of
- gotten with
- play to
- played to
- played up to
- playing to
- playing up to
- plays to
- plays up to
- ran after
- runs after
- seeking friendship
- seeks friendship
- shined to
- shined up to
- shines to
- shines up to
- shining to
- shining up to
- shone to
- shone up to
- sought friendship
- suck to
- sucked to
- sucked up to
- sucking to
- sucking up to
- sucks to
- sucks up to
- takes pains with
- taking pains with
- took pains with
• develop
- ex tend
- ex tended
- ex tending
- ex tends
- ex-tend
- ex-tended
- ex-tending
- ex-tends
- un fold
- un folded
- un folding
- un folds
- un-fold
- un-folded
- un-folding
- un-folds
• distill
- boiled down
- boiling down
- co oked
- co oking
- co-oked
- co-oking
- cut bone
- cut the bone
- cuts bone
- cuts the bone
- cuts to bone
- cuts to the bone
- cutting bone
- cutting the bone
- cutting to bone
- cutting to the bone
- dis till
- dis tilled
- dis tilling
- dis tills
- dis-till
- dis-tilled
- dis-tilling
- dis-tills
- ex press
- ex pressed
- ex pressing
- ex tract
- ex-press
- ex-pressing
- ex-tract
- ex-tracts
- gat meat
- gat the meat
- gat to meat
- gat to the meat
- get meat
- get the meat
- gets meat
- gets the meat
- gets to meat
- gets to the meat
- getting meat
- getting the meat
- getting to meat
- getting to the meat
- got meat
- got the meat
- got to meat
- got to the meat
- gotten meat
- gotten the meat
- gotten to meat
- gotten to the meat
- in fuse
- in fused
- in fuses
- in fusing
- in-fuse
- in-fused
- in-fuses
- in-fusing
- pressed out
- presses out
- squeezed out
- squeezes out
• elaborate
- be deck
- be decked
- be decking
- be decks
- be-deck
- be-decked
- be-decking
- be-decks
- de vise
- de vised
- de vising
- de-vise
- de-vised
- de-vising
- dis cuss
- dis cussed
- dis cusses
- dis cussing
- dis-cuss
- dis-cussed
- dis-cusses
- dis-cussing
- ex pound
- ex pounded
- ex pounding
- ex pounds
- ex-pound
- ex-pounded
- ex-pounding
- ex-pounds
- fleshes out
- pro duce
- pro duces
- pro-duces
• elevate
- ex cite
- ex cited
- ex cites
- ex citing
- ex-cite
- ex-cited
- ex-cites
- in spire
- in spired
- in spires
- in spiring
- in-spire
- in-spired
- in-spires
- in-spiring
• enrich
- end owed
- end owing
- end-owed
- end-owing
- hiked up
- hikes up
- hiking up
- hopping up
- hops up
- jacked up
- jacking up
- jacks up
- jazzed up
- jazzes up
- jazzing up
- made rich
- makes rich
- making rich
- poured it on
- poured on
- pouring it on
- pouring on
- pours it on
- pours on
- pyramidded
- pyramidding
- ran up
- running up
- souping up
- soups up
- up grade
- up graded
- up grades
- up grading
- up-grade
- up-graded
- up-grades
- up-grading
• explain
- brake down
- breaks down
- broke down
- de cipher
- de ciphered
- de ciphering
- de ciphers
- de fine
- de fined
- de fines
- de fining
- de scribe
- de scribed
- de scribes
- de scribing
- de-cipher
- de-ciphered
- de-ciphering
- de-ciphers
- de-fine
- de-fined
- de-fines
- de-fining
- de-scribe
- de-scribed
- de-scribes
- de-scribing
- dis close
- dis closed
- dis closes
- dis closing
- dis-close
- dis-closed
- dis-closes
- dis-closing
- ex plain
- ex plained
- ex plaining
- ex plains
- ex plicate
- ex plicated
- ex plicates
- ex plicating
- ex-plain
- ex-plained
- ex-plaining
- ex-plains
- ex-plicate
- ex-plicated
- ex-plicates
- ex-plicating
- go in to detail
- goes in to detail
- goes into detail
- going in to detail
- going into detail
- makes plain
- making plain
- para phrase
- para phrased
- para phrases
- para phrasing
- para-phrase
- para-phrased
- para-phrases
- para-phrasing
- put plain english
- puts across
- puts in plain english
- puts plain english
- putting across
- putting in plain english
- putting plain english
- re solve
- re solves
- re veals
- re-solve
- re-solved
- re-solves
- re-solving
- re-veal
- re-veals
- sets right
- threw light up on
- threw light upon
- throw light up on
- throwing light up on
- throwing light upon
- throws light up on
- throws light upon
- trans late
- trans-lated
- un ravel
- un raveled
- un raveling
- un ravelled
- un ravelling
- un ravels
- un tangle
- un tangled
- un tangles
- un tangling
- un-ravel
- un-raveled
- un-raveling
- un-ravelled
- un-ravelling
- un-ravels
- un-tangle
- un-tangled
- un-tangles
- un-tangling
- went in to detail
- went into detail
• filter
- Osmoses
- metastasizes
- metastasizing
- osmosed
- osmosing
- soaked through
- soaking through
- soaks through
• groom
- Primmed
- Primming
- co ached
- co aching
- co-ached
- co-aching
- lick in to shape
- licked in to shape
- licked into shape
- licking in to shape
- licking into shape
- licks in to shape
- licks into shape
- made attractive
- made presentable
- makes attractive
- makes presentable
- making attractive
- making presentable
- prettied up
- pretties up
- prettying up
- puts through grind
- puts through mill
- putting through grind
- putting through mill
- re adies
- re fresh
- re freshes
- re-adies
- re-fresh
- re-freshes
- rubbed down
- rubbing down
- rubs down
- shapes up
- shaping up
- slicking up
- slicks up
- smartening up
- smartens up
- spiffing up
- spiffs up
• improve
- renovate
• simplify
- strip
Other synonyms:

•

humanize
improve onorupon
sublimate
weatherize

•

perfect

•

work up

•

pulp

•

treat

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• civilize

• clean

• complete

• copyedit

proofread

• elevate

• enliven

tune up

• improve

• perfect

• proofread

• purify

aerifies
aerify
clarify
expiates
fumigate
rarified
rarifies
rarifying

• round

• smooth

Planed
Planing
Sanded
Sanding
ironing
make uniform
sand
sands

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action

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Equivalence
- Adjective
  refined.
- Proper noun, singular
  refining.
Independent
- Adjective
  further, healthier, perfect, well-developed.
- Verb, gerund or present participle
  ameliorating, bettering, polishing.
- Verb, 3rd person singular present
  enhances.
- Verb, base form
  ameliorate, amend, articulate, ascertain, augment, broaden, confine, deepen, defining, delimit, delineate, demarcate, finalise, hone, lay, modify, narrow, optimise, optimize, perfect, pinpoint, polish, rationalize, readjust, realign, rectify, redefine, reorient, reshape, restrain, revamp, revisit, streamline, Amending, re-engineer.
Other Related
- Adjective
  fine-tune, Perfecting.
- Verb, base form
  fine-tune, further, reinforce, sharpen, fine-tuning, re-define.

What are the hypernyms for Refine?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

Other hypernyms:
clarify, cleanse, improve, perfect, polish, process, purify, upgrade.

What are the hyponyms for Refine?

Hyponyms are more specific words categorized under a broader term, known as a hypernym.

hyponyms for refine (as verbs)
- change
  attenuate, change, process, modify, alter, treat.

What are the opposite words for refine?

When we talk about antonyms for the word "refine," we refer to words that have the opposite meaning of refine. Some of the antonyms for refine include coarsen, corrupt, degrade, worsen, adulterate, debase, defile, and deteriorate. These words can help us describe situations where something ceases to become better or more refined. For instance, we could say that a company's reputation may degrade if it becomes embroiled in negative publicity, or the water quality of a river may deteriorate if industrial waste continues to be dumped into it. These antonyms for refine give us a way to express the opposite of improvement, allowing us to convey a range of meanings and nuances in our conversations and writing.

What are the antonyms for Refine?

v.
• adulterate
- co oked
- co oking
- co-oked
- co-oking
- de file
- de filed
- de files
- de filing
- de grade
- de graded
- de grades
- de grading
- de nature
- de natured
- de natures
- de value
- de valued
- de values
- de valuing
- de-file
- de-filed
- de-files
- de-filing
- de-grade
- de-graded
- de-grades
- de-grading
- de-nature
- de-natured
- de-natures
- de-value
- de-valued
- de-values
- de-valuing
- denature
- denatured
- denatures
- denaturing
- dis solve
- dis solved
- dis solves
- dis solving
- dis-solve
- dis-solved
- dis-solves
- dis-solving
- doctor up
- doctored up
- doctoring up
- doctors up
- in filtrate
- in filtrated
- in filtrating
- in-filtrate
- in-filtrates
- in-filtrating
- inter mix
- inter mixed
- inter mixes
- inter mixing
- inter-mix
- inter-mixed
- inter-mixes
- inter-mixing
- made impure
- make impure
- makes impure
- making impure
- phonied up
- phonies up
- phony up
- phonying up
- pollute
- trans fuse
- trans fused
- trans fuses
- trans fusing
- trans-fuse
- trans-fused
- trans-fuses
- trans-fusing
• alter or debase, often for profit
- adulterate
• noun
- Endamage
- blemish
- blight
- damage
- diminish
- flaw
- harm
- hurt
- impair
- lower
- mar
- reduce
- spoil
- tarnish
- vitiate
- worsen
• perfect, polish
- aggravate
- agitate
- upset
• purify
- corrupt
- dirty
- ruin
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Usage examples for Refine

The speaker gave a few illustrations of the sort of manhood and womanhood that is sometimes wrought out of that crude ore when the tempering of help and education is available to refine it.

"The Tempering"

Charles Neville Buck

If we see that the work done is artistic, and that the objects of nature analyzed are beautiful, this culture of the understanding may refine and elevate the taste, and beautify the fancy.

"Education in The Home, The Kindergarten, and The Primary School"

Elizabeth P. Peabody

For two thousand years the races of Europe had toiled to humanize themselves, school their character, equip their minds, refine their tastes.

"Prophets of Dissent Essays on Maeterlinck, Strindberg, Nietzsche and Tolstoy"

Otto Heller

Famous quotes with Refine

Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly.

T. S. Eliot
As critical acclaim and response has built up, every interview I give is a chance to puncture the myth I've created about my work and refine it.

James Ellroy
Each of the Arts whose office is to refine, purify, adorn, embellish and grace life is under the patronage of a Muse, no god being found worthy to preside over them.

Eliza Farnham
I hope to refine music, study it, try to find some area that I can unlock. I don't quite know how to explain it but it's there. These can't be the only notes in the world, there's got to be other notes some place, in some dimension, between the cracks on the piano keys.

Marvin Gaye
Democracy makes us articulate our views, defend them, and refine them.

Lee H. Hamilton

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