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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Verb excavate has 4 senses
- excavate(v = verb.perception) unearth - recover through digging; "Schliemann excavated Troy"; "excavate gold" is one way to bring out, reveal, uncover, unveil
- excavate(v = verb.contact) dig up, turn up - find by digging in the ground; "I dug up an old box in the garden" is one way to obtain
- excavate(v = verb.contact) - form by hollowing; "Carnegie had a lake excavated for Princeton University's rowing team"; "excavate a cavity" is one way to core out, hollow, hollow out
- excavate(v = verb.contact) dig, hollow - remove the inner part or the core of; "the mining company wants to excavate the hillside" is one way to remove, take, take away, withdraw
Derived forms noun excavation1, noun excavation3, noun excavation2
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s Adjective
Derived forms noun excavation1, noun excavation3, noun excavation2
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Derived forms noun excavation3, noun excavator2, noun excavator1
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
Derived forms noun excavation4, noun excavation3
Sample sentence:
They excavate the trees
CIDE DICTIONARY
excavate, v. t. [L. excavatus, p. p. of excavare to excavate; ex out + cavare to make hollow, cavus hollow. See Cave.].
- To hollow out; to form cavity or hole in; to make hollow by cutting, scooping, or digging; as, to excavate a ball; to excavate the earth. [1913 Webster]
- To form by hollowing; to shape, as a cavity, or anything that is hollow; as, to excavate a canoe, a cellar, a channel. [1913 Webster]
- To dig out and remove, as earth. [1913 Webster]"The material excavated was usually sand." [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
excavate, v.tr.
1 a make (a hole or channel) by digging. b dig out material from (the ground).
2 reveal or extract by digging.
3 (also absol.) Archaeol. dig systematically into the ground to explore (a site).
1 a make (a hole or channel) by digging. b dig out material from (the ground).
2 reveal or extract by digging.
3 (also absol.) Archaeol. dig systematically into the ground to explore (a site).
Derivative
excavation n. excavator n.
Etymology
L excavare (as EX-(1), cavus hollow)
THESAURUS
excavate
avulse, bore, bring to light, bring up, burrow, clear, countersink, cut out, deepen, delve, depress, deracinate, dig, dig out, dig up, dike, disclose, disentangle, disinter, dive, draw, draw out, dredge, dredge up, drill, drive, eradicate, evolve, evulse, excise, exhume, expose, exsect, extract, extricate, ferret out, fish up, furrow, get out, gouge, gouge out, groove, grub, grub up, hollow out, lay bare, lower, mine, pick out, pluck out, pluck up, pull, pull out, pull up, quarry, rake out, remove, reveal, rip out, root out, root up, sap, scoop, scoop out, scrabble, scrape, scratch, shovel, sink, spade, take out, tear out, trench, trough, tunnel, turn up, uncover, unearth, unravel, uproot, weed out, withdraw, worm out, wrest outROGET THESAURUS
excavate
Concavity
VB be concave, retire, cave in, render concave, depress, hollow, scoop, scoop out, gouge, gouge out, dig, delve, excavate, dent, dint, mine, sap, undermine, burrow, tunnel, stave in.
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