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SURFACE MINE

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Extract (ore) from a strip-mine

Synonyms:

strip mine; surface-mine; surface mine

Classified under:

Verbs of eating and drinking

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:

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