- Improve subtly - Purify - Raise spirits - 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. - 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. - To become pure; to be cleared of feculent matter. - To improve in accuracy, delicacy, or excellence.
- Alter - Amend - Change or amend - Improve subtly - Rewrite - To look at again for the detection of errors; to
reexamine; to review; to look over with care for correction; as, to
revise a writing; to revise a translation. - To compare (a proof) with a previous proof of the same
matter, and mark again such errors as have not been corrected in the
type.