Clues for the word "REFINE"
We've had 28 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 77 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Penny Dell Daily crossword on March 23, 2026.
Definition of refine
- v. t. - To reduce to a fine, unmixed, or pure state; to free from impurities; to free from dross or alloy; to separate from extraneous matter; to purify; to defecate; as, to refine gold or silver; to refine iron; to refine wine or sugar.
- v. t. - To purify from what is gross, coarse, vulgar, inelegant, low, and the like; to make elegant or exellent; to polish; as, to refine the manners, the language, the style, the taste, the intellect, or the moral feelings.
- v. i. - To become pure; to be cleared of feculent matter.
- v. i. - To improve in accuracy, delicacy, or excellence.
- v. i. - To affect nicety or subtilty in thought or language.
Referring Clues
- Purify
- Make genteel
- Make pure
- Perfect
- Remove impurities from
- Process, as sugar
- Smelt
- Distill
- Make metal from ore
- Clarify
- Tweak
- Make improvements
- Free from impurities
- Improve, as one's manners
- Processe ore
- Work ore
- Cleanse from impurities
- Polish official in charge at the end
- Fishing equipment endlessly contains part of fish to process
- Polish referee almost outstanding
- Strain regarding charge for misdemeanour
- Make more elegant
- Make pure, as sugar
- Polish
- Bring to perfection in free usage
- To make pure
- Make small improvements to
- Hone
Last Seen In
- Penny Dell Daily - March 23, 2026
- Penny Dell Daily - February 28, 2026
- Evening Standard Quick - December 03, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - November 04, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - July 15, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - February 19, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - January 16, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - December 30, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - November 22, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - October 25, 2024
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - August 17, 2024
- USA Today - July 22, 2024
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - July 18, 2024
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - May 30, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - May 25, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - February 27, 2024
- Evening Standard Easy - January 26, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - December 25, 2023
- Penny Dell Daily - November 12, 2023
- USA Today - August 28, 2023
- Penny Dell Daily - August 09, 2023
- Family Time - July 31, 2023
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - October 22, 2022
- Evening Standard Quick - September 21, 2022
- Evening Standard Cryptic - August 11, 2022
- New York Times - December 24, 2021
- Mirror Classic - January 20, 2018
- Evening Standard Quick - December 01, 2017
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - November 21, 2017
- Evening Standard Easy - November 17, 2017
- And in 47 more crossword puzzles...