mine

mine is a 4-letter English word with 16 senses as noun, pronoun & adjective, intransitive verb, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: See Mien. Face value is 6 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

4 letters · Scrabble 6 · Words With Friends 8 · 16 senses

Definitions

1. noun. See Mien.
2. pronoun & adjective. Belonging to me; my. Used as a pronominal to me; my. Used as a pronominal adjective in the predicate; as, "Vengeance is mine; I will repay." Rom. xii. 19. Also, in the old style, used attributively, instead of my, before a noun beginning with a vowel.
3. intransitive verb. To dig a mine or pit in the earth; to get ore, metals, coal, or precious stones, out of the earth; to dig in the earth for minerals; to dig a passage or cavity under anything in order to overthrow it by explosives or otherwise.
4. intransitive verb. To form subterraneous tunnel or hole; to form a burrow or lodge in the earth; as, the mining cony.
5. transitive verb. To dig away, or otherwise remove, the substratum or foundation of; to lay a mine under; to sap; to undermine; hence, to ruin or destroy by slow degrees or secret means.
6. transitive verb. To dig into, for ore or metal.
7. transitive verb. To get, as metals, out of the earth by digging.
8. intransitive verb. A subterranean cavity or passage
9. intransitive verb. A pit or excavation in the earth, from which metallic ores, precious stones, coal, or other mineral substances are taken by digging; -- distinguished from the pits from which stones for architectural purposes are taken, and which are called quarries.
10. intransitive verb. A cavity or tunnel made under a fortification or other work, for the purpose of blowing up the superstructure with some explosive agent.
11. intransitive verb. Any place where ore, metals, or precious stones are got by digging or washing the soil; as, a placer mine.
12. intransitive verb. Fig.: A rich source of wealth or other good.
13. noun. explosive device that explodes on contact; designed to destroy vehicles or ships or to kill or maim personnel
14. noun. excavation in the earth from which ores and minerals are extracted
15. verb. lay mines

    "The Vietnamese mined Cambodia"

16. verb. get from the earth by excavation

    "mine ores and metals"

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in mine:

mein, mien

Common word forms

mined, miner, mines, mining, mineable

Words from these letters

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