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SURFACE MINE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does surface mine mean?
• SURFACE MINE (verb)
The verb SURFACE MINE has 1 sense:
1. extract (ore) from a strip-mine
Familiarity information: SURFACE MINE used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Extract (ore) from a strip-mine
Classified under:
Verbs of eating and drinking
Synonyms:
strip mine; surface-mine; surface mine
Hypernyms (to "surface mine" is one way to...):
mine (get from the earth by excavation)
Domain category:
excavation; mining (the act of extracting ores or coal etc from the earth)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something
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