strip-mined

Verb

strip-mine (third-person singular simple present strip-mines, present participle strip-mining, simple past and past participle strip-mined)

1. To mine by creating a strip mine, usually for coal or tar sands.
   • The decision to strip-mine was opposed by environmentalists.
2. (figuratively) To use up all the resources of something.
   • This is what success looks like in the creator economy: A group of friends becomes a cast of characters, strip-mines lives and relationships for content and, in the process, turns into a corporation, with payroll to process and liabilities to consider.2022 October 25, Willy Staley, “The Try Guys and the Prison of Online Fame”, in The New York Times Magazine