Refines vs Repines - What's the difference?
refines | repines |
(refine)
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
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, title= To purify from what is gross, coarse, vulgar, inelegant, low, and the like; to make elegant or excellent; to polish.
To become pure; to be cleared of feculent matter.
To improve in accuracy, delicacy, or excellence.
To affect nicety or subtlety in thought or language.
(repine)
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* Alexander Pope
* 1958 , John W. Peterson, Night of Miracles :
* 1988 , (Anthony Burgess), Any Old Iron :
To fail; to wane.
* Spenser
As verbs the difference between refines and repines
is that refines is while repines is (repine).refines
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(refin)Yesterday’s fuel, passage=The dawn of the oil age was fairly recent. Although the stuff was used to waterproof boats in the Middle East 6,000 years ago, extracting it in earnest began only in 1859 after an oil strike in Pennsylvania.
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* *repine
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(en-verb)- But many times we complain, repine , and mutter without a cause, we give way to passions we may resist and will not.
- What if the head, the eye, or ear repined / To serve mere engines to the ruling mind?
- no more need men on earth repine
- Beatrix invited me no more to tea but I did not greatly repine .
- Repining courage yields no foot to foe.
References
* “†re?pine, n.'']” listed in the '' [2nd ed., 1989 * “
repine, v.'']” listed in the ''Oxford English Dictionary [2nd ed., 1989 * “
repine, n.'']” listed in the ''Oxford English Dictionary [3rd ed., December 2009 * “
repine, v.'']” listed in the ''Oxford English Dictionary [3rd ed., December 2009