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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

overmine en · VERB

Etymology

From over- + mine.

Meanings

  1. (transitive) To mine excessively.
  2. To view an object in terms of its effects on or relationships with others, in object-oriented ontology.
    • We can even go further: when we consider an object in everyday life we do not usually just undermine or overmine it as if it demanded an either/or approach, but rather we run the two processes in tandem: duomining, as Harman labels it. 2022, Nicholas Gayle, Conrad and the Being of the World, page 25:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
overmines Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
overmining Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
overmined Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
overmined Tense=Past lexicographic

Coordinates

undermine