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over-refine

[oh-ver-ri-fahyn]

o·ver·re·fine

[oh-ver-ri-fahyn]
verb (used with object), -fined, -fin·ing.
to refine excessively, as with oversubtle distinctions.

Origin:
1705–15; over- + refine
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Over-refine is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
a chattering or flighty, light-headed person.
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over-refine

verb
refine too much or with excess of subtlety; "He is overrefining this matter" [syn: overrefine
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