Find or find means to retrieve something that was lost, or to come upon something while shopping, walking, or going about--
Did you find my keys? I lost them.
They like to find seashells on the beach.
A good bargain at the flea market is considered a "find".
Fined or fined ( rhymes with find ) is the past tense ( yesterday, or some time ago ) form of "fine", meaning to charge money for an infraction of rules, laws, or ordinances--
He was fined $20 for parking in a no-parking zone.
The library fined her ten cents for each overdue book.
Now that you know that, you can say--
"He was fined $50 for going the wrong way on the exit ramp when he couldn't find his way."
Note--"refine" means to process or alter something into a "finer" substance, literally or figuratively--
The oil companies refine oil to make gasoline.
She needs to refine her goals so that they are more specific.
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