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Grammar : Verb |
Spell : ri-fahyn |
Phonetic Transcription : rɪˈfaɪn |
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Définition of refine
Origin :- 1580s, of metals, c.1590 of manners, from re-, intensive prefix, + obsolete fine (v.) "make fine," from fine (adj.) "delicate." Cf. French raffiner, Italian raffinare, Spanish refinar. General and figurative sense is recorded from 1590s; of sugar, from 1610s. Related: Refined; refining.
- verb purify
- verb perfect, polish
- But the butcher had a sentiment for his business, and knew how to refine upon it.
- Extract from : « Life And Adventures Of Martin Chuzzlewit » by Charles Dickens
- Resist it not; it goes to refine and raise thy theory of matter just as much.
- Extract from : « Essays, First Series » by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Loving is an art, and we all need to learn the art and to refine its practice.
- Extract from : « Herein is Love » by Reuel L. Howe
- Beer does not refine, perhaps,97 but at any rate it mellows.
- Extract from : « Europe After 8:15 » by H. L. Mencken, George Jean Nathan and Willard Huntington Wright
- For the necessity for concentration only serves to strengthen and refine her aspiration.
- Extract from : « The Heart of Nature » by Francis Younghusband
- Workers separate the product from the earth, transport it, refine it, fabricate it.
- Extract from : « The American Empire » by Scott Nearing
- They will rescue him; they will refine the vileness out of him.
- Extract from : « Following the Equator, Complete » by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
- Incidentally the novel may teach, encourage, refine, elevate.
- Extract from : « The Complete Essays of C. D. Warner » by Charles Dudley Warner
- To reclaim from a savage or barbarous state; to educate; to refine.
- Extract from : « The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft, Volume 2 » by Hubert Howe Bancroft
- A definite movement was on to refine the language by foreign decorations.
- Extract from : « The Greatest English Classic » by Cleland Boyd McAfee
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