Synonyms of refining

refining

verb

present participle of refine

as in improving

to make better

worked on refining her backhand before the big tennis match

Synonyms & Similar Words

• improving
• enhancing
• perfecting
• upgrading
• amending
• helping
• enriching
• remediating
• remedying
• ameliorating
• bettering
• reinforcing
• correcting
• revising
• strengthening
• meliorating
• rectifying
• reforming
• editing
• rehabilitating
• intensifying
• reworking
• refurbishing
• polishing
• honing
• revamping
• fine-tuning
• redrafting
• boosting
• fining
• fortifying
• emending
• rehabbing
• beefing (up)
• retouching
• touching up

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• worsening
• impairing
• damaging
• hurting
• harming
• injuring
• reducing
• tarnishing
• spoiling
• vitiating
• disfiguring
• diminishing
• marring
• lowering
• defacing
• blighting
• lessening
• endamaging
• flawing
• blemishing

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of refining

Chili For the past two years, Wolf has been refining her chili recipe. — Taylor Mims, Billboard, 7 Oct. 2026

Debeurme approached them after refining his concept with his teams and broadcasting partners, and the Navy authorities eventually proved easy to convince. — Kevin Giraud, Variety, 7 Oct. 2026

Indonesia imposed a ban on nickel ore exports to encourage smelters to move refining operations to the country; the country is now pushing to attract more of the EV value chain, including car and battery manufacturing. — Angelica Ang, Fortune, 5 Oct. 2026

Organizations should treat profiles as living assets, refining them as markets evolve. — Adam Feiner, Forbes.com, 5 Oct. 2026

Sunkyong sought to control more of its supply chain, from securing and refining petroleum to producing the materials used in its textile businesses. — Encyclopedia Britannica, 2 Oct. 2026

With the election a little more than a month away, candidates for Florida governor are refining their messages to sway voters on the state's property insurance crisis. — Joan Murray, CBS News, 29 Sep. 2026

IonQ attributes this feat to its dual decoder architecture, where the first decoder extracts the initial syndrome measurements while the second decoder corrects the residual errors after refining the intermediate representation. — Ameya Paleja, Interesting Engineering, 23 Sep. 2026

Founded in 2022, The Alloy Market makes money by either refining unusable materials and taking a cut, or by listing usable items on their online resale marketplace. — Liz Knueven, CNBC, 23 Sep. 2026