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BENFICIATE
Pronunciation (US): | (GB): |
I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Subject to a reduction process
Example:
benficiate ores
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
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