What is another word for mined?

Pronunciation: [mˈa͡ɪnd] (IPA)

Mined is a verb that means to extract or dig materials from the earth, often involving drilling or tunneling. There are several synonyms for mined that can be used in various contexts such as, excavated, quarried, dug up, extracted, unearthed, and retrieved. These synonyms can be used to describe different methods of obtaining minerals or other resources, such as coal that is extracted from underground mines or diamonds that are excavated from the earth. The synonyms for mined can also be used in a metaphorical sense, such as when ideas or information are extracted from books or databases.

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What are the hypernyms for Mined?

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What are the opposite words for mined?

Mined, the past tense of mine, can have several antonyms depending on the context it is used. For instance, if mined refers to the act of extracting minerals or resources from the ground, then the antonyms can be leave untouched, replenish, or reforest. If mined refers to the act of digging a tunnel, shaft or pit in the ground, the antonyms can be seal, fill, or cover. If mined refers to the act of harvesting data or information from a computer system, the antonyms can be erase, delete, or clear. Therefore, the antonyms for mined vary depending on the meaning and the usage of the word.

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Usage examples for Mined

At some points on the line of the railroad immense mounds of peat were observed which had been mined, dried, and stacked for future use by the employees of the Government.
"Due North or Glimpses of Scandinavia and Russia"
Maturin M. Ballou
In his address on the conservation of ores and related minerals, Andrew Carnegie declared that during the three-fourths of a century from 1820 to 1895 nearly 4,000,000,000 tons of coal were mined by methods so wasteful that 6,000,000,000 tons were either destroyed or allowed to remain in the ground forever inaccessible.
"History of the United States, Volume 6 (of 6)"
E. Benjamin Andrews
Cross-roads have been mined, opening up enormous craters like those I saw yesterday outside Bapaume.
"From Bapaume to Passchendaele, 1917"
Philip Gibbs

Famous quotes with Mined

  • The experience reminds me of a favorite saying: Most of the yield from research efforts comes from the coal that is mined while looking for diamonds.
    Paul D. Boyer
  • More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.
    Napoleon Hill
  • Over a spell of about three years, I played a series of roles that were, for me, all very different, but most of them came out within a six-month period. They all dealt with a kind of dark territory that in some cases had been mined before in movies.
    Kevin Spacey
  • “There is nearly always a chthonic link. The object-imbued-with-numinous-power tends to be of mineral origin: gold, perhaps mined from a special vein, or a jewel of extraordinary rarity, or a sword forged from a shooting star. I am merely describing pulp. But the vast popularity…attests to the power of these motifs to seize the reader’s attention, down at the level of the reptilian brain, even as the cerebrum is getting sick.”
    Neal Stephenson
  • With this recitation of paraphernalia and detritus, O'Brien manages to encapsulate the experience of an army and of a particular war, of a mined and booby-trapped landscape, of cold nights and hot days, of soaking monsoons and rice paddies, and of the possibility of being shot, like Ted Lavender, suddenly and out of nowhere: not only in the middle of a sentence but in the midst of a subordinate clause.
    Francine Prose

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