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BENEFICIATE

Dictionary entry overview: What does beneficiate mean?

• BENEFICIATE (verb)
The verb BENEFICIATE has 1 sense:

1. process (ores or other raw materials), as by reduction

Familiarity information: BENEFICIATE used as a verb is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• BENEFICIATE (verb)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Process (ores or other raw materials), as by reduction

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "beneficiate" is one way to...):

process; treat (subject to a process or treatment, with the aim of readying for some purpose, improving, or remedying a condition)

Domain category:

metallurgy (the science and technology of metals)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

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