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overmining

overmining is the present participle and gerund of overmine.

Meaning of overmine

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

Questions about overmining

What is overmining the present participle and gerund of?
Overmining is the present participle and gerund of overmine.

Words near overmining in the dictionary

  1. overmine
  2. overmined
  3. overmineralization
  4. overmineralized
  5. overmines
  6. overmining
  7. overminute
  8. overminutely
  9. overminuteness
  10. overmiss
  11. overmissed

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