refined
/ɹiːfaɪnd/ · verb
Meaning
- To purify; reduce to a fine, unmixed, or pure state; to free from impurities.
- To become pure; to be cleared of impure matter.
- To purify of coarseness, vulgarity, inelegance, etc.; to polish.
- To improve in accuracy, delicacy, or excellence.
- To make nice or subtle.
- The refined form of a commodity, as opposed to its raw or generic form.
- Precise, freed from imprecision, particularly:
- Cultured, freed from vulgarity, particularly:
- Purified, reduced in or freed from impurities, particularly:
- (of a market) Dealing in a refined product such as sugar or petroleum.
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