Usually means: Improves or clarifies by polishing.
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General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. refines: Merriam-Webster
  2. refines: Collins English Dictionary
  3. refines: Vocabulary.com
  4. Refines, refines: Wordnik
  5. refines: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. refines: Wiktionary
  7. refines: Dictionary.com
  8. refines: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. refines: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. refines: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. refines: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. refines: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (refine)

verb:  (transitive) To purify; reduce to a fine, unmixed, or pure state; to free from impurities.
verb:  (intransitive) To become pure; to be cleared of impure matter.
verb:  (transitive) To purify of coarseness, vulgarity, inelegance, etc.; to polish.
verb:  (ambitransitive) To improve in accuracy, delicacy, or excellence.
verb:  (transitive) To make nice or subtle.
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