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OVERREFINE
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I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Refine too much or with excess of subtlety
Example:
He is overrefining this matter
Synonyms:
over-refine; overrefine
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
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)
