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excavate (verb)

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  • excavate — ► VERB 1) make (a hole or channel) by digging. 2) extract (material) from the ground by digging. 3) carefully remove earth from (an area) in order to find buried remains. DERIVATIVES excavation noun excavator noun. ORIGIN Latin excavare hollow… …   English terms dictionary

  • excavate — verb ( vated; vating) Etymology: Latin excavatus, past participle of excavare, from ex + cavare to make hollow more at cavatina Date: 1599 transitive verb 1. to form a cavity or hole in 2. to form by hollowing out 3. to dig out and remove 4 …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • excavate — verb ADVERB ▪ completely, fully ▪ The area has not yet been fully excavated. ▪ extensively ▪ partially, partly ▪ …   Collocations dictionary

  • excavate — verb a) To make a hole in (something); to hollow. b) To remove part of (something) by scooping or digging it out. See Also: excavation, excavator …   Wiktionary

  • excavate — verb (I, T) 1 to make a hole in the ground by digging up soil etc 2 discover something that was buried in the earth in an earlier time by digging for it: Schliemann excavated the ancient city of Troy. excavation noun (C, U) …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • excavate — verb 1) she excavated a narrow tunnel Syn: dig, dig out, bore, hollow out, scoop out; burrow, tunnel, sink, gouge 2) numerous artifacts have been excavated Syn: unearth, dig up, unco …   Thesaurus of popular words

  • excavate — verb Syn: unearth, dig up, uncover, reveal, disinter, exhume, dig out, quarry, mine …   Synonyms and antonyms dictionary

  • excavate — [[t]e̱kskəveɪt[/t]] excavates, excavating, excavated 1) VERB When archaeologists or other people excavate a piece of land, they remove earth carefully from it and look for things such as pots, bones, or buildings which are buried there, in order… …   English dictionary

  • excavate — UK [ˈekskəveɪt] / US [ˈekskəˌveɪt] verb [intransitive/transitive] Word forms excavate : present tense I/you/we/they excavate he/she/it excavates present participle excavating past tense excavated past participle excavated a) to dig in the ground… …   English dictionary

  • excavate — /ˈɛkskəveɪt / (say ekskuhvayt) verb (t) (excavated, excavating) 1. to make hollow by removing the inner part; make a hole or cavity in; form into a hollow, as by digging. 2. to make (a hole, tunnel, etc.) by removing material. 3. to dig or scoop… …  

  • excavate — I (Roget s IV) v. Syn. dig, hollow out, shovel, unearth; see dig 1 , 2 . II (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) v. dig out, hollow out, unearth, burrow, dredge, scoop, tunnel, backhoe, channel, hoe, shovel out. III (Roget s Thesaurus II) verb 1. To break …   English dictionary for students

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