overmine

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English

Etymology

From over- +‎ mine.

Verb

overmine (third-person singular simple present overmines, present participle overmining, simple past and past participle overmined)

  1. (transitive) To mine excessively.
  2. (philosophy) To view an object in terms of its effects on or relationships with others, in object-oriented ontology.
    Coordinate term: undermine
    • 2022, Nicholas Gayle, Conrad and the Being of the World, page 25:
      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.

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