BENEFICIATE

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Present simple: I / you / we / they beneficiate ... he / she / it beneficiates

Past simple: beneficiated

Past participle: beneficiated

-ing form: beneficiating

Meaning:

Process (ores or other raw materials), as by reduction

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "beneficiate" is one way to...):

process; treat (subject to a process or treatment, with the aim of readying for some purpose, improving, or remedying a condition)

Domain category:

metallurgy (the science and technology of metals)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

beneficiation (crushing and separating ore into valuable substances or waste by any of a variety of techniques)