Definition of refine : 1. To affect nicety or subtilty in
thought or language. 2. To become pure; to be cleared of
feculent matter. 3. To improve in accuracy, delicacy, or
excellence. 4. 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. 5. 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. cut down, lucubrate, pull down,
weatherize, calibrate, soften, exposit, enlarge, cultivate,
chastise, afflict, discipline, rectify, try, knock down, clean,
boost, amend, flesh out, shine, pop, work out, dilate, strain,
pour down, subdue, expand, meliorate, push down, consume,
reform, round, punish, right, complicate, tweak, shoot down,
belt down, smoothen, ameliorate, humble, treat, p