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refine
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.
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My dear Harriet, you must not refine too much upon this charade.—You will betray your feelings improperly, if you are too conscious and too quick, and appear to affix more meaning, or even quite all the meaning which may be affixed to it.
To make nice or subtle.