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BENEFICIATE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does beneficiate mean?
• BENEFICIATE (verb)
The verb BENEFICIATE has 1 sense:
1. process (ores or other raw materials), as by reduction
Familiarity information: BENEFICIATE used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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... he / she / it beneficiates Past simple: beneficiated
Past participle: beneficiated
-ing form: beneficiating
Sense 1
Meaning:
Process (ores or other raw materials), as by reduction
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "beneficiate" is one way to...):
process; treat (subject to a process or treatment, with the aim of readying for some purpose, improving, or remedying a condition)
Domain category:
metallurgy (the science and technology of metals)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Derivation:
beneficiation (crushing and separating ore into valuable substances or waste by any of a variety of techniques)
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