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    SURFACE-MINE

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (verb) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    Extract (ore) from a strip-mineplay

    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:

    Somebody ----s
    Somebody ----s something

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