Definition of Overmined

1. Adjective. Depleted by excessive mining. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Overmined

1. overmine [v] - See also: overmine

Lexicographical Neighbors of Overmined

overmike
overmiked
overmiking
overmild
overmilitarize
overmilitarized
overmilitarizes
overmilitarizing
overmilk
overmilked
overmilking
overmilks
overmind
overminds
overmine
overmined (current term)
overmines
overmining
overmix
overmixed
overmixes
overmixing
overmodest
overmodestly
overmodulate
overmodulated
overmodulates
overmodulating
overmodulation
overmoist

Literary usage of Overmined

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Annual Report by Missouri Division of Mine Inspection, Missouri Bureau of Mines (1896)
"... term "blasting off the solid:" Whenever coal is blasted without being under or overmined, in mining parlance it is said to be "blasted off the solid. ..."

2. The Channel Tunnel and Public Opinion by James Knowles (1883)
"Undermined by land, overmined at sea, sluice-ridden at its entrance, and liable to asphyxiating vapours at intervals, the tunnel will hardly he regarded by ..."

3. Central Eurasian Water Crisis; Caspian, Aral, and Dead Seas by Iwao Kobori, Michael H. Glantz (1998)
"... lying wholly in Israel, with a safe yield of 375 MCM/yr. or the sandstone Gaza aquifer, whose 80 MCM/yr yield is currently being seriously overmined. 4. ..."

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