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noun (quarries)
- A site for mine, mining stone.
Translations: - Dutch: steengroeve
- French: carrière
- German: Steinbruch
- Italian: cava di pietra
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verb (quarries, quarrying, quarried)
- To obtain stone from a quarry.
- (figurative) To extract or slowly obtain by long, tedious searching.
- She has quarried out new, interesting facts about ancient Egypt from old papyri.
Translations: - German: ausgraben
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