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BENFICIATE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does benficiate mean?
• BENFICIATE (verb)
The verb BENFICIATE has 1 sense:
1. subject to a reduction process
Familiarity information: BENFICIATE used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Subject to a reduction process
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Context example:
benficiate ores
Hypernyms (to "benficiate" is one way to...):
deoxidise; deoxidize; reduce (to remove oxygen from a compound, or cause to react with hydrogen or form a hydride, or to undergo an increase in the number of electrons)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
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