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Refined vs Refind - What's the difference?

refined | refind |

As verbs the difference between refined and refind

is that refined is past tense of refine while refind is to find something again.

As an adjective refined

is showing or having good feelings or good taste.

refined

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Showing or having good feelings or good taste.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers)
    • , chapter=5, title= A Cuckoo in the Nest , passage=The most rapid and most seductive transition in all human nature is that which attends the palliation of a ravenous appetite.
  • An absence of coarseness.
  • Not vulgar.
  • Without impurities.

    • Verb

    (head)
  • (refine)
    • The raw petroleum was refined into kerosene.

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    refind

    English

    Verb

  • To find something again.
  • *, vol.1, New York Review of Books, 2001, p.300:
    • Cardan, in his fifth book of Wisdom, gives an instance in a smith of Milan, a fellow-citizen of his, one Galeus de Rubeis, that being commended for refinding of an instrument of Archimedes, for joy ran mad.
  • * {{quote-news, 2008, November 22, Brian A. Howey, The Obama 'Landslide' Impact, Howey Politics Indiana citation
    • , passage=Clark now sees an opportunity to help Republicans refind their soul and message.}}

    Synonyms

    * rediscover

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