refine
Verb
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subtypes:
- over-refine, overrefine - refine too much or with excess of subtlety
- civilise, civilize, cultivate, educate, school, train - teach or refine to be discriminative in taste or judgment
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subtypes:
- involve - make complex or intricate or complicated
- develop - elaborate by the unfolding of a musical idea and by the working out of the rhythmic and harmonic changes in the theme
- sophisticate - make more complex or refined
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is a type of: distill, make pure, purify, sublimate - remove impurities from, increase the concentration of, and separate through the process of distillationsame as: rectify
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is a type of: attenuate - become weaker, in strength, value, or magnitude
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