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excavate

[eks-kuh-veyt]

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verb (used with object), -vat·ed, -vat·ing.

to make hollow by removing the inner part; make a hole or cavity in; form into a hollow, as by digging: The ground was excavated for a foundation.

to make (a hole, tunnel, etc.) by removing material.

to dig or scoop out (earth, sand, etc.).

to expose or lay bare by or as if by digging; unearth: to excavate an ancient city.

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Origin:
1590–1600; < Latin excavātus (past participle of excavāre to hollow out), equivalent to ex- ex-¹ + cav(um) hollow, cave + -ātus -ate¹

Related forms

re·ex·ca·vate, verb (used with object), -vat·ed, -vat·ing.

un·ex·ca·vat·ed, adjective

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Those who plan to plant peonies this fall can excavate a few planting holes ahead of time.

Usually, they'll excavate a cavity in an old snag, or use a natural cavity in the same sort of structure.

There are no plans now to excavate any more remains, and those that have been excavated will be re-buried after study.

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Those who plan to plant peonies this fall can excavate a few planting holes ahead of time.

Usually, they'll excavate a cavity in an old snag, or use a natural cavity in the same sort of structure.

There are no plans now to excavate any more remains, and those that have been excavated will be re-buried after study.

Researchers should locate these fossil poachers and fund them to excavate.

My requests for a ladder to excavate deeper were denied.

China has said it lacks the resources to excavate his tomb, which according to legend is filled with booby traps to deter robbers.

Foraging birds excavate large, rectangular holes in trunks and logs.

Archaeologists got a chance to excavate there last summer as part of a plan to create a memorial to the slaves.

After the team finished surveying, it took months to fence, excavate and level the site.

If you choose thinner bricks, say about two inches deep, you will not have to excavate that much.

He had been working at a site there for a few years and was looking for another place to excavate.

Pompeii, because it was covered by much thicker strata of lava, making it more difficult and expensive to excavate.

Kinkajous are nocturnal and will occupy or excavate tree cavities to sleep in during the day.

They will return next summer to excavate the skeletons.

So it was with giddy expectation that the team began to excavate a skeleton of an unknown bipedal hunter.

Perhaps future disks will let you travel through time to excavate the extinct apostrophe.

Just last weekend, the archaeologists gave way to chain saws and bulldozers and will no longer be able to excavate the site.

Pool envy can even convince a rational man to excavate an underground sprinkler system.

Governments and cultural organizations sponsor students to come to their countries to restore their art and excavate history.

New insights should emerge when the team returns to excavate further.

The scientists don't have the time or the resources to excavate to the kind of scale that the farmers are.

Cox is one of several therapists who have made a career of helping bands excavate deep-rooted.

They will collect a sampling of the surface artifacts and then excavate in a few small test areas.

The ideal riverbank is crumbly enough for the birds to excavate a nesting burrow with their beaks.

Over a few days, he says, he tried to excavate and set things right.

Preparatory work will occupy construction crews for several months, as they clear ground and excavate for new foundations.

The archaeologists made a gypsum cast to excavate it.

Volunteers returned today to shovel debris, clean colonial knickknacks and carefully excavate antiques from the caked mud.

Usually, some form of trying to excavate any kind of negative thing cycling in the mind and turn it toward the positive.

Answers may emerge as researchers continue to excavate the newfound shapes in the coming years.

With the edgings firmly in place you can excavate the ground in between, then pour the four-inch gravel subbed.

People have begun to build houses and to excavate at night, everywhere, putting heritage sites all over the country at risk.

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World English Dictionary

excavate (ˈɛkskəˌveɪt)

—vb
1.	to remove (soil, earth, etc) by digging; dig out
2.	to make (a hole, cavity, or tunnel) in (solid matter) by hollowing or removing the centre or inner part: to excavate a tooth
3.	to unearth (buried objects) methodically in an attempt to discover information about the past

[C16: from Latin excavāre, from cavāre to make hollow, from cavus hollow]

exca'vation

—n

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Word Origin & History

excavate

1590s, from L. excavatus, pp. of excavare "to hollow out," from ex- "out" + cavare "to hollow," from cavus "cave." Related: Excavated; excavating.

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