refine

refine is a 6-letter English word with 11 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

6 letters · Scrabble 9 · Words With Friends 10 · 11 senses

Definitions

1. transitive verb. 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.
2. transitive verb. 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.
3. intransitive verb. To become pure; to be cleared of feculent matter.
4. intransitive verb. To improve in accuracy, delicacy, or excellence.
5. intransitive verb. To affect nicety or subtilty in thought or language.
6. verb. make more complex, intricate, or richer

   "refine a design or pattern"

   Synonyms: complicate, elaborate, rarify

7. verb. make more precise or increase the discriminatory powers of

   "refine a method of analysis"

   "refine the constant in the equation"

8. 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"

9. verb. improve or perfect by pruning or polishing

   "refine one's style of writing"

   Synonyms: down, polish

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

    "refine sugar"

    Synonyms: rectify

11. verb. treat or prepare so as to put in a usable condition

    "refine paper stock"

    "refine pig iron"

Synonyms

complicate, elaborate, rarify, down, polish, rectify

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in refine:

enfire, ferine, fineer, infree

Common word forms

refined, refiner, refines, refining, refinement

Words from these letters

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