intermine

intermine verb: to intersect or penetrate with minerals.

Verb

intermine (third-person singular simple present intermines, present participle intermining, simple past and past participle intermined)

(obsolete) To intersect or penetrate with minerals.
- Her earth with Allome veines most richly intermin'd.1622, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion, song 28 p. 146
- The soil is porous; the surface from a few inches to about a foot and a half consisting of earth more or less intermined with sand , below this is laterite, and underlying this is sand and disintegrated green stone.1878, Medical and Sanitary Report of the Native Army of Madras, page 23
(broadly) Intermix; intersperse.
- After supper were brought in upon the place the fair wooden gospels—that is to say, many pairs of tables and cards—with little small banquets, intermined with collations and reer-suppers.1534, François Rabelais, Gargantua
- Open violence produced little effect on so patient a people, and although the Mahomedans subsequently lived for centuries, intermined with the Hindus, no radical change was produced in the manners or tenets of the latter; on the contrary, for almost a century past, the Mahomedans have evinced much...1908 June, “Swadeshi Notes: Social”, in The Dawn and Dawn Society's Magazine, volume 11, number 8, page 127

intermine (not comparable)

Between mines.
- Previous researchers (for example, Grobbelaar, 2001), have investigated intermine flow.2004, B.H. Usher & F.D.I. Hodgson, “Turning a liabiliity into an asset: the case for South African coalmine waters”, in D. Stephenson, E.M. Shemang, T.R. Chaoka, editor, Water Resources of Arid Areas
- In a rather more complex case, the concession offering in Zambia, which has extensive intermine operations in the Copper Belt, allowed bidders to choose to include any combination of Zambia's three railways: mainline operations, intermine operations, and passenger services.2011, Heinrich Bofinger, Africa's Transport Infrastructure

These are preore faults intermined by intrusion.2018, Vladimir Litvinenko, Geomechanics and Geodynamics of Rock Masses, page 25:
Typical field exercises will involve leap-frogging and short runs of high speed and agility intermined with periods of slower movement or stopping.1982, Hearings On Military Posture And H.R. 5968, page 690:

third-person singular present	intermines
present participle	intermining
past participle	intermined
past	intermined

From inter- + mine.

What does intermine mean?: Intermine means to intersect or penetrate with minerals.
How do you use intermine in a sentence?: These are preore faults intermined by intrusion.
What part of speech is intermine?: Intermine can be a verb or an adjective.
What is the past tense of intermine?: The past tense of intermine is intermined.

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