Definition of "refining" []

• Present participle of refine. (verb)
• The process of purification of a substance (verb)

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• "You can see the story-telling process at work, what I call the refining and polishing."
• "But clearly he wasn't happy with his own use of the word refining, which is why as you know, Suzanne, he held a second news conference yesterday to clarify his position and reassert that he is determined to bring the troops home within the 16 - month period that he's been talking about for months now."
• "She had been doubtless a Norwegian peasant woman, and had known little of what we call refining advantages in outward things; but love and peace and sympathy had made her wonderfully delicate and quick to divine the needs of those with whom she dealt."