Usually means: Make excessively detailed or complex.
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  3. overrefine: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
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  11. overrefine: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
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  13. Overrefine: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. overrefine: FreeDictionary.org
  15. overrefine: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. overrefine: TheFreeDictionary.com

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▸ verb:  (transitive) To refine to an excessive degree.

Similar:
overdilute, refine, overfilter, overfeminize, overcivilize, overtrim, overshrink, underdefine, overfry, sublimate, more...

Opposite:
simplify, uncomplicate, streamline, unrefined

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Similar:
overdilute, refine, overfilter, overfeminize, overcivilize, overtrim, overshrink, underdefine, overfry, sublimate, more...

Opposite:
simplify, uncomplicate, streamline, unrefined



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