Definition: explosive device that explodes on contact; designed to destroy vehicles or ships or to kill or maim personnel;excavation in the earth from which ores and minerals are extracted;lay mines; "The Vietnamese mined Cambodia";get from the earth by excavation; "mine ores and metals";
Hyponyms: floating mine, marine mine, land mine, ground-emplaced mine, booby trap, coal mine, coalpit, copper mine, goldmine, gold mine, salt mine, silver mine, strip mine, sulphur mine, sulfur mine, countermine, surface mine, surface-mine Entailments: dig, delve, cut into, turn over Part Meronyms: colliery, pit Derivational Morphology:
mining, minelaying, miner, mineworker, excavation Anagrams:
mien
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