Excavate

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  • intransitive verb. To make a hole in; hollow out.
  • intransitive verb. To form by hollowing out.
  • intransitive verb. To remove by digging or scooping out.
  • intransitive verb. To expose or uncover by or as if by digging.
  • intransitive verb. To engage in digging, hollowing out, or removing.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To hollow out, or make a hollow or cavity in, by digging or scooping out the inner part, or by removing extraneous matter: as, to excavate a tumulus or a buried city for the purpose of exploring it; to excavate a cocoanut.
  • To form by scooping or hollowing out; make by digging out material, as from the earth: as, to excavate a tunnel or a cellar.
  • In zoology: Formed as if by excavation; hollowed, but having the inner surface irregularly rounded.
  • Widely and irregularly notched: said of a margin or mark.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • transitive verb. To hollow out; to form cavity or hole in; to make hollow by cutting, scooping, or digging
  • transitive verb. To form by hollowing; to shape, as a cavity, or anything that is hollow.
  • transitive verb. To dig out and remove, as earth.
  • transitive verb. a kind of dredging apparatus for excavating under water, in which silt and loose material mixed with water are drawn up by a pump.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. To make a hole in (something); to hollow.
  • verb. To remove part of (something) by scooping or digging it out.
  • verb. To uncover (something) by removing its covering.
  • noun. A major grouping of unicellular eukaryotes, of the clade Excavata
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. form by hollowing
  • verb. find by digging in the ground
  • verb. recover through digging
  • verb. remove the inner part or the core of
    • Word Usage
    "That would be as if Muslims invaded Italy and tried to "excavate" the Sistine Chapel."
    cross-reference
    excavated palpi  hollow  
    Form
    excavated  excavating  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    core out  hollow  hollow out  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    000-plus  airsoft  deepish  diatomaceous  facultative  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    avulse  bore  bring to light  bring up  burrow  
    verb-form
    excavated  excavates  excavating  
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