Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to mine
Participle: mined
Gerund: mining
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | mine |
| you | mine |
| he;she;it | mines |
| we | mine |
| you | mine |
| they | mine |
Perfect
| I | have mined |
| you | have mined |
| he;she;it | has mined |
| we | have mined |
| you | have mined |
| they | have mined |
Past
| I | mined |
| you | mined |
| he;she;it | mined |
| we | mined |
| you | mined |
| they | mined |
Pluperfect
| I | had mined |
| you | had mined |
| he;she;it | had mined |
| we | had mined |
| you | had mined |
| they | had mined |
Future
| I | will mine |
| you | will mine |
| he;she;it | will mine |
| we | will mine |
| you | will mine |
| they | will mine |
Future Perfect
| I | will have mined |
| you | will have mined |
| he;she;it | will have mined |
| we | will have mined |
| you | will have mined |
| they | will have mined |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | mine |
| you | mine |
| he;she;it | mine |
| we | mine |
| you | mine |
| they | mine |
Perfect
| I | have mined |
| you | have mined |
| he;she;it | have mined |
| we | have mined |
| you | have mined |
| they | have mined |
Imperfect
| I | mined |
| you | mined |
| he;she;it | mined |
| we | mined |
| you | mined |
| they | mined |
Pluperfect
| I | had mined |
| you | had mined |
| he;she;it | had mined |
| we | had mined |
| you | had mined |
| they | had mined |
Conditional
Present
| I | would mine |
| you | would mine |
| he;she;it | would mine |
| we | would mine |
| you | would mine |
| they | would mine |
Perfect
| I | would have mined |
| you | would have mined |
| he;she;it | would have mined |
| we | would have mined |
| you | would have mined |
| they | would have mined |
Imperative
| you | mine |
| we | Let's mine |
| you | mine |
Verbs conjugated like 'mine'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'mine'
dine,
fine,
line,
meine,
mike,
mime,
min,
mince,
mind,
minde,
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. "lay explosives," 1630, in ref. to old tactic of tunneling under enemy fortifications to blow them up; from mine (n.). The sense of "to dig under foundations to undermine them" is from c.1380, and miner in this sense is attested from c.1275.
2. From Middle English, from Old French mine, from Late Latin mina, from Gaulish (compare to Welsh mwyn, Irish mianach (“ore”)), from Proto-Celtic *meinis (“ore, metal”).
Verbs referencing "mine"
Maori maina.
Sample Sentences
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Crater of Diamonds State Park is the only place in the world where visitors can mine their own diamonds.
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Lead veins have been traced […] but they have not been mined. [1837, Andrew Ure, Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures and Mines:]
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We had to slow our advance after the enemy mined the road ahead of us.
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the mining cony
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They mined the walls. [a. 1628 (date written), John Hayward, The Life, and Raigne of King Edward the Sixt, London: […] [Eliot’s Court Press, and J. Lichfield at Oxford?] for Iohn Partridge, […], published 1630, →OCLC:]
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Too lazy, perhaps, to cut [these immense trees] down, the spoilers […] had mined them, and placed a quantity of gunpowder in the cavity. [1814 July 7, [Walter Scott], Waverley; or, ’Tis Sixty Years Since. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, →OCLC:]
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Bitcoin supporters say that estimates of its carbon footprint are overstated. And if the computers that mine and help transact bitcoins are attached to an electric grid that uses wind and solar power, they add, mining and using it will become cleaner over time. [2021 March 9, Andrew Ross Sorkin, “Bitcoin's Climate Problem”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:]