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caved

/keɪvd/ · verb

Meaning

  1. To surrender.
  2. To collapse.
  3. To hollow out or undermine.
  4. To engage in the recreational exploration of caves.
  5. In room-and-pillar mining, to extract a deposit of rock by breaking down a pillar which had been holding it in place.
  6. To work over tailings to dress small pieces of marketable ore.

Etymology / origin

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Sources

  1. DictionaryAPI.dev English dictionary data
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