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kəˈveɪ noun
1.
a hole or cavity made by excavating.
2.
the act of excavating.
3.
an area in which excavating has been done or is in progress, as an archaeological site.
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World English Dictionary
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| —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
excavation
1610s, "action of excavating," from L. excavationem, noun of action from excavare (see excavate).
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American Heritage
Medical Dictionary
excavation ex·ca·va·tion (ěk'skə-vā'shən)
n.
A natural cavity, pouch, or recess.
A cavity formed artificially or as the result of a pathological process.
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Example sentences
The center features a rich, well-established museum of fossils but also has an excavation site on the premises.
The excavation soon struck slabs of shale that had likely been thrown in to fill up what was clearly a burial site.
Journalists descended on a sleepy excavation site there and reported that it was a favorite target of looters.
He also suggested that an ozone detector array could forewarn of disasters in tunnel excavation, landslides and underground mines.
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