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BENFICIATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does benficiate mean? 

BENFICIATE (verb)
  The verb BENFICIATE has 1 sense:

1. subject to a reduction processplay

  Familiarity information: BENFICIATE used as a verb is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


BENFICIATE (verb)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Subject to a reduction process

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Context example:

benficiate ores

Hypernyms (to "benficiate" is one way to...):

deoxidise; deoxidize; reduce (to remove oxygen from a compound, or cause to react with hydrogen or form a hydride, or to undergo an increase in the number of electrons)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something


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