surface-mine surface mine • surface noise · · · Info · Definitions · Synonyms · Characters · · surface-mine · · Text Common · · Latin · · Scripts 12 · · Length 4 · · Syllables Definitions · · · (verb) extract (ore) from a strip-mine. Synonyms: strip mine, surface mine. · · Verb Definition 1 Synonyms · · · strip mine · · Synonym 1 surface mine · · Synonym 2 Characters · · - hyphen-minus U+002D a latin small letter a U+0061 c latin small letter c U+0063 e latin small letter e U+0065 f latin small letter f U+0066 i latin small letter i U+0069 m latin small letter m U+006D n latin small letter n U+006E r latin small letter r U+0072 s latin small letter s U+0073 u latin small letter u U+0075