Renovate vs Refine - What's the difference?
renovate | refine |
To renew; to revamp something to make it look new again.
To restore to freshness or vigor.
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.
As verbs the difference between renovate and refine
is that renovate is to renew; to revamp something to make it look new again while refine is 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.renovate
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Verb
(en-verb)- This house is shabby, it needs renovating.
Synonyms
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* renovationrefine
English
Verb
(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.