Refining

What do we mean by refining?

To purify; reduce to a fine, unmixed, or pure state; to free from impurities.

To become pure; to be cleared of impure matter.

To purify of coarseness, vulgarity, inelegance, etc.; to polish.

To improve in accuracy, delicacy, or excellence.

To make nice or subtle.

Words that are spelled similarly to refining:
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Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word refining:
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Words that rhyme with refining:
lining, whining, mining, pining, shining, dining, defining, silver lining, undermining, twining, wining, designing, outlining, redlining, reclining, confining, declining, signing, aligning, streamlining, combining, fining, vining, assigning, divining, opining, seining, brining, chining, underlining, redefining, intertwining, resigning, headlining, sining, steining, quarantining, strip mining, splining, placer mining, reassigning, xining, realigning, brake lining, redesigning, cylindrical lining, furnace lining, outshining, affining, breining, caroline hung, sign hung, tie ning, vanhyning, vine hung.

Adjectives that are often used to describe refining:
electrolytic, further, petroleum, solvent, physical, grain, crude, over, subsequent, sugar, more, metal, domestic, final, oil, continuous, much, fire, additional, conventional, secondary, modern, preliminary, lead, constant, gold, commercial, extensive, complete, careful, mechanical, partial, gradual, salt, zone, ever, ordinary, caustic, unnatural, electric, ore, less, continual, scale, chemical, silver, metaphysical, edible, worth, pyrometallurgical, electro, double, nickel, efficient, downstream, hot, pre, corn, sulfuric, sulphuric, progressive, iron, stage, acid.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective refining:
mills.

Consonant match to refining:
roughening.

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