1.  refine(v = verb.change) down, fine-tune, polish - improve or perfect by pruning or polishing; "refine one's style of writing"
is one way to ameliorate, amend, better, improve, meliorate
Derived forms noun refinement₂, noun refinement₁, noun refiner₁
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody; Something ----s somebody

2.  refine(v = verb.change) complicate, elaborate, rarify - make more complex, intricate, or richer; "refine a design or pattern"
is one way to alter, change, modify
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something

3.  refine(v = verb.change) - treat or prepare so as to put in a usable condition; "refine paper stock"; "refine pig iron"; "refine oil"
is one way to process, treat
Derived forms noun refinement₃, noun refiner₁, noun refinery₁
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something

4.  refine(v = verb.change) rectify - reduce to a fine, unmixed, or pure state; separate from extraneous matter or cleanse from impurities; "refine sugar"
is one way to distill, make pure, purify, sublimate
Derived forms noun refinement₃, noun refiner₁, noun refining₁
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something

5.  refine(v = verb.change) - 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"
is one way to attenuate
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something

6.  refine(v = verb.change) - make more precise or increase the discriminatory powers of; "refine a method of analysis"; "refine the constant in the equation"
is one way to alter, change, modify
Derived form noun refinement₄
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something

1.  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. [1913 Webster]
"I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined." [1913 Webster]

2.  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. [1913 Webster]
"Love refines
The thoughts, and heart enlarges." [1913 Webster]

1.  To become pure; to be cleared of feculent matter. [1913 Webster]
"So the pure, limpid stream, when foul with stains,
Works itself clear, and, as it runs, refines." [1913 Webster]

2.  To improve in accuracy, delicacy, or excellence. [1913 Webster]
"Chaucer refined on Boccace, and mended his stories." [1913 Webster]
"But let a lord once own the happy lines,
How the wit brightens! How the style refines!" [1913 Webster]

3.  To affect nicety or subtilty in thought or language. Atterbury. [1913 Webster]

refine, v.
1 tr. free from impurities or defects; purify, clarify.
2 tr. & intr. make or become more polished or elegant or cultured.
3 tr. & intr. make or become more subtle or delicate in thought, feelings, etc.

Derivative:
refinable adj.

Etymology:
RE- + FINE(1) v.

VB  be clean, render clean, clean, cleanse, mundify, rinse, wring, flush, full, wipe, mop, sponge, scour, swab, scrub, brush up, wash, lave, launder, buck, absterge, deterge, decrassify, clear, purify, depurate, despumate, defecate, purge, expurgate, elutriate, lixiviate, edulcorate, clarify, refine, rack, filter, filtrate, drain, strain, disinfect, fumigate, ventilate, deodorize, whitewash, castrate, emasculate, sift, winnow, pick, weed, comb, rake, brush, sweep, rout out, clear out, sweep out, make a clean sweep of.

VB  judge intuitively, judge by intuition, hazard a proposition, hazard a guess, talk at random, reason ill, falsely, misjudge, paralogize, take on faith, take as a given, assume (supposition), pervert, quibble, equivocate, mystify, evade, elude, gloss over, varnish, misteach, mislead, cavil, refine, subtilize, split hairs, misrepresent, beg the question, reason in a circle, reason in circles, assume the conclusion, cut blocks with a razor, beat about the bush, play fast and loose, play fast and loose with the facts, blow hot and cold, prove that black is white and white black, travel out of the record, parler a tort et a travers, put oneself out of court, not have a leg to stand on, judge hastily, shoot from the hip, jump to conclusions (misjudgment).