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OVER-REFINE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does over-refine mean?
• OVER-REFINE (verb)
The verb OVER-REFINE has 1 sense:
1. refine too much or with excess of subtlety
Familiarity information: OVER-REFINE used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Refine too much or with excess of subtlety
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Synonyms:
over-refine; overrefine
Context example:
He is overrefining this matter
Hypernyms (to "over-refine" is one way to...):
down; fine-tune; polish; refine (improve or perfect by pruning or polishing)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
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