REFINING Synonyms

• tending to ameliorate

• that makes clear

• the act of making something clean

• cleansing the body by washing; especially ritual washing of e.g. hands

• acting like an antiseptic

• getting higher or more vigorous

• the work of making something smooth and shiny by rubbing or waxing it

• preparing or putting through a prescribed procedure

• serving to purge or rid of sin

• an act of removing by cleansing; ridding of sediment or other undesired elements

• the act of clearing yourself (or another) from some stigma or charge

• serving to purge or rid of sin

• freeing from noxious matter

• acting like an antiseptic

• remove impurities from, increase the concentration of, and separate through the process of distillation

• undergo the process of distillation

• extract by the process of distillation

• undergo condensation; change from a gaseous to a liquid state and fall in drops

• give off (a liquid)

• device that removes something from whatever passes through it

• an electrical device that alters the frequency spectrum of signals passing through it

• remove by passing through a filter

• pass through

• run or flow slowly, as in drops or in an unsteady stream

• a whetstone made of fine gritstone; used for sharpening razors

• a tool consisting of a number of fine abrasive slips held in a machine head, rotated and reciprocated to impart a smooth finish to cylinder bores, etc.

• sharpen with a hone

• make perfect or complete

• being complete of its kind and without defect or blemish

• a tense of verbs used in describing action that has been completed (sometimes regarded as perfective aspect)

• without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers

• precisely accurate or exact

• make perfect or complete

• determine the length of

• reduce to a fine, unmixed, or pure state; separate from extraneous matter or cleanse from impurities

• bring, lead, or force to abandon a wrong or evil course of life, conduct, and adopt a right one

• set straight or right

• make right or correct

• convert into direct current

• an upward slope or grade (as in a road)

• software that provides better performance than an earlier version did

• a reservation that is improved

• the property possessed by a slope or surface that rises

• hardware that provides better performance than an earlier version did

• the act of improving something (especially machinery) by raising it to a higher grade (as by adding or replacing components)

• rate higher; raise in value or esteem

• to improve what was old or outdated

• give a promotion to or assign to a higher position

• get better travel conditions

• give better travel conditions to

• make more complicated

• make more complex, intricate, or richer

• being or moving lower in position or less in some value

• soft fine feathers

• English physician who first described Down's syndrome (1828-1896)

• (American football) a complete play to advance the football

• (usually plural) a rolling treeless highland with little soil

• fine soft dense hair (as the fine short hair of cattle or deer or the wool of sheep or the undercoat of certain dogs)

• spatially or metaphorically from a higher to a lower level or position

• away from a more central or a more northerly place

• paid in cash at time of purchase

• from an earlier time

• to a lower intensity

• in an inactive or inoperative state

• extending or moving from a higher to a lower place

• becoming progressively lower

• being put out in a game of baseball

• understood perfectly

• lower than previously

• shut

• not functioning (temporarily or permanently)

• filled with melancholy and despondency

• drink down entirely

• eat up completely, as with great appetite

• bring down or defeat (an opponent)

• shoot at and force to come down

• cause to come or go down

• improve or perfect by pruning or polishing

• marked by complexity and richness of detail

• developed or executed with care and in minute detail

• add details, as to an account or idea; clarify the meaning of and discourse in a learned way, usually in writing

• produce from basic elements or sources; change into a more developed product

• make more complex, intricate, or richer

• work out in detail

• improve or perfect by pruning or polishing

• adjust finely

• make fine adjustments or divide into marked intervals for optimal measuring

• of or relating to Poland or its people or culture

• the property of being smooth and shiny

• the Slavic language of Poland

• a highly developed state of perfection; having a flawless or impeccable quality

• a preparation used in polishing

• make (a surface) shine

• improve or perfect by pruning or polishing

• bring to a highly developed, finished, or refined state

• make more complex, intricate, or richer