[Sửa]Excavate, dig, quarry, extract, scoop out or up, remove,unearth; derive, extract, draw: He claims to have mined coal inWales and gold in South Africa. Analysis shows this ore wasmined in Pennsylvania. 4 ransack, search, rake through, scour,scan, read, survey, look through, probe: Several directorieswere mined to compile our list of sales prospects.