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mine 3, verb (oh)



3 v past tense and past participle mined present participle mining
[I,T usually passive] to dig large holes in the ground in order to remove coal, gold etc
::Copper has been mined here since the sixteenth century.
::This area has been mined for over 300 years.
mine for
::The company first started mining for salt in 1851.
[T usually passive] to hide bombs in the sea or under the ground
::All the roads leading to the village had been mined.