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  • English Word Refind Definition To find again; to get or experience again.
  • English Word Refine Definition 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.
  • English Word Refine Definition 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.
  • English Word Refine Definition To become pure; to be cleared of feculent matter.
  • English Word Refine Definition To improve in accuracy, delicacy, or excellence.
  • English Word Refine Definition To affect nicety or subtilty in thought or language.
  • English Word Refined Definition of Refine
  • English Word Refined Definition Freed from impurities or alloy; purifed; polished; cultured; delicate; as; refined gold; refined language; refined sentiments.
  • English Word Refinement Definition The act of refining, or the state of being refined; as, the refinement or metals; refinement of ideas.
  • English Word Refinement Definition That which is refined, elaborated, or polished to excess; an affected subtilty; as, refinements of logic.
  • English Word Refiner Definition One who, or that which, refines.
  • English Word Refineries Definition of Refinery
  • English Word Refinery Definition The building and apparatus for refining or purifying, esp. metals and sugar.
  • English Word Refinery Definition A furnace in which cast iron is refined by the action of a blast on the molten metal.
  • English Word Refining Definition of Refine
  • English Word Refit Definition To fit or prepare for use again; to repair; to restore after damage or decay; as, to refit a garment; to refit ships of war.
  • English Word Refit Definition To fit out or supply a second time.
  • English Word Refit Definition To obtain repairs or supplies; as, the fleet returned to refit.
  • English Word Refitment Definition The act of refitting, or the state of being refitted.
  • English Word Refix Definition To fix again or anew; to establish anew.
  • English Word Reflame Definition To kindle again into flame.
  • English Word Reflect Definition To bend back; to give a backwa/d turn to; to throw back; especially, to cause to return after striking upon any surface; as, a mirror reflects rays of light; polished metals reflect heat.
  • English Word Reflect Definition To give back an image or likeness of; to mirror.
  • English Word Reflect Definition To throw back light, heat, or the like; to return rays or beams.
  • English Word Reflect Definition To be sent back; to rebound as from a surface; to revert; to return.
  • English Word Reflect Definition To throw or turn back the thoughts upon anything; to contemplate. Specifically: To attend earnestly to what passes within the mind; to attend to the facts or phenomena of consciousness; to use attention or earnest thought; to meditate; especially, to think in relation to moral truth or rules.
  • English Word Reflect Definition To cast reproach; to cause censure or dishonor.
  • English Word Reflected Definition of Reflect
  • English Word Reflected Definition Thrown back after striking a surface; as, reflected light, heat, sound, etc.
  • English Word Reflected Definition Hence: Not one's own; received from another; as, his glory was reflected glory.