OVERREFINE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does overrefine mean? 

• OVERREFINE (verb)
  The verb OVERREFINE has 1 sense:

1. refine too much or with excess of subtlety

  Familiarity information: OVERREFINE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• OVERREFINE (verb)

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 "overrefine" is one way to...):

down; fine-tune; polish; refine (improve or perfect by pruning or polishing)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Derivation:

overrefinement (the act of distorting something so it seems to mean something it was not intended to mean)