Definition of "strip-mined" [strip-mined]

• Simple past tense and past participle of strip-mine. (verb)

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• "If the hybrid plantings thrive, some envision huge tracts of strip-mined Appalachia one day being restored with lovely chestnut forests."
• "Here, too, financial institutions have strip-mined a vulnerable population."
• "Every reader can simply go to this website and enter his or her zip code and see their connection to coal-fired electricity supplied by coal strip-mined from mountaintop removal or other strip-mining operations."