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rĭ-fīn'
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To make or become thin, or less dense
Very light; airy; delicate
To remove, extract, or produce by distillation
(Of a plant) grown by cultivation (not wild)
purify (related)
Purify means to make something clean or free from impurities.
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To give a spiritual meaning to; to take in a spiritual sense; opposed to literalize.
An elegant or refined feature; an amenity:
To pass through a filtering agent:
To clarify is defined as to purify a liquid to make it clear or to remove something.
(Law) To take an action, usually the filing of a document in the correct venue, that secures a legal right.
To improve by care, training, or study; refine
clean (related)
(Informal) Entirely; wholly:
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filter (related)
To pass through or as if through a filter
alembic
Delicately beautiful or charming and usually small:
The definition of elegant is someone or something luxurious in a restrained manner or something that is very well-thought through yet simple.
Carefully done or elaborately made
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The definition of fastidious is a very careful attention to detail, or an uptight or hyper-critical person.
Free from crudeness or coarseness; cultivated; elegant
spirituelle
Crafty or sly; devious.
Artistic ability:
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An advanced state of intellectual, cultural, and material development in human society, marked by progress in the arts and sciences, the extensive use of record-keeping, including writing, and the appearance of complex political and social institutions.
Advancement or refinement in physical, intellectual, or moral condition
A distinction; discernment, the act of discriminating, discerning, distinguishing, noting or perceiving differences between things.
A method of leading up to a tenace, as in bridge, in order to prevent an opponent from winning the trick with an intermediate card.
Members of the upper class, collectively
humanization
The act of humanizing.
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Polish is a substance used for making something glossy, or a style of elegance and grace, or the smoothness and glossiness of a surface.
preciosity
A state or condition of overemphasizing detail, especially of pronunciation when speaking.
rarefaction
The condition of being rarefied.
Refinement is the process of making something better by making small changes, or good taste and cultural elegance.
(Countable) An instance of being subtle, a subtle thing, especially a subtle argument or distinction.
To make better; improve:
To punish (in order to bring about improvement in behavior, attitude, etc.); to restrain, moderate
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debarbarize
To improve
decrassify
(Archaic) to clean; to remove dirt from.
depurate
To cleanse or purify or become cleansed or purified.
To prepare (an author's works, journals, letters, etc.) for publication, by selection, arrangement, and annotation
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To provide with information, as in an effort to gain support for a position or to influence behavior:
To raise (a person) in rank or position; promote
To remove erroneous, vulgar, obscene, or otherwise objectionable material from (a book, for example) before publication.
To arrive at or attain the end of:
To clean the fur, feathers, etc. of itself or another animal, often as a social activity
The definition of improve is to make something or someone better, or to become better.
To melt ores in order to extract the metals they contain. Oxide ores, such as iron ore, are smelted with carbon, which serves as a fuel and changes the ore into a reduced metal.
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(Statistics, image processing, digital audio) To capture important patterns in the data, while leaving out noise.
To express (socially or personally unacceptable impulses, specif. sexual impulses) in constructive, acceptable forms, often unconsciously
To render sublime.
To render subtle:
adulterate (antonym)
To make inferior, impure, not genuine, etc. by adding a harmful, less valuable, or prohibited substance
ruin (antonym)
To cause (a building, for example) to be in a destroyed, collapsed, or decayed state.
damage (antonym)
To impair the soundness, goodness, or value of; to harm or cause destruction.
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dirty (antonym)
To make (something) dirty.
corrupt (antonym)
(--- Computers) To damage (data) in a file or on a disk.
pollute (antonym)
To contaminate (water, air, etc.) with harmful chemicals, waste material, etc.
smooth off the rough edges
To twist or become twisted together.
To change (food or substances in the body) into compounds that can be assimilated, excreted, etc.
To make small adjustments in for optimal performance or effectiveness:
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To swallow hastily; gulp:
(Math.) To find the length of (a curve)
optimise (related)
evaluate (related)
fine-tuned (related)
simplify (related)
formulate (related)
reformulate (related)
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