Beneficiate
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
To work and improve, as a mine; turn to good account; utilize.
To reduce (ores); treat metallurgically. Also called
benefit
.
the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
transitive verb.
To reduce (ores).
Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
verb.
To
reduce
(
ores
).
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verb.
process (ores or other raw materials), as by reduction
Word Usage
"The other included the development of new technology that could be used to beneficiate the taconite that was still abundant there."
Hypernym
Words that are more generic or abstract
process
treat