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overmine

overmine verb: to mine excessively.

Verb

overmine (third-person singular simple present overmines, present participle overmining, simple past and past participle overmined)

  1. (transitive) To mine excessively.
  2. To view an object in terms of its effects on or relationships with others, in object-oriented ontology.
    • We can even go further: when we consider an object in everyday life we do not usually just undermine or overmine it as if it demanded an either/or approach, but rather we run the two processes in tandem: duomining, as Harman labels it.2022, Nicholas Gayle, Conrad and the Being of the World, page 25

Forms of overmine

third-person singular presentovermines
present participleovermining
past participleovermined
pastovermined

Origin of overmine

From over- + mine.

Questions about overmine

What does overmine mean?
Overmine means to mine excessively.
What part of speech is overmine?
Overmine is a verb.
What is the past tense of overmine?
The past tense of overmine is overmined.

Words near overmine in the dictionary

  1. overmilked
  2. overmilking
  3. overmilks
  4. overmind
  5. overminds
  6. overmine
  7. overmined
  8. overmineralization
  9. overmineralized
  10. overmines
  11. overmining

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