excavate
/'ekskəveit/
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Definition
- Verb:
- To remove earth or soil by digging: To make a hole, channel, or other cavity in the ground by removing material.
- To uncover or expose by digging: To reveal or recover something buried by removing the earth covering it, especially in an archaeological or scientific context.
- To form or create by hollowing out: To make a space or structure by removing the material from inside it.
Examples of Usage
- Verb:
- The construction crew will excavate the site for the new building's foundation.
- Archaeologists hope to excavate the ancient temple to learn more about the civilization.
- The machine excavated a large trench for the new pipeline.
Advanced Usage
- "to excavate for": to dig in search of something specific.
- The team is excavating for dinosaur fossils in the desert.
- "to excavate a site": to carry out a systematic dig at a particular location.
- The university received a grant to excavate the site of the medieval village.
Variants and Related Words
- Excavation (n): The act or process of excavating, or the hole or site that results from it.
- The excavation revealed the walls of an old fortress.
- Excavator (n): A person who excavates, or a large machine used for digging.
- The excavator operator carefully removed the topsoil.
Synonyms
- Dig: To break up and move earth.
- Unearth: To find something in the ground by digging.
- Delve: To dig or search deeply.
Related Phrasal Verbs
(This word does not commonly form phrasal verbs. The action is typically expressed with prepositions like "for" or direct objects.)
Related Idioms
(There are no common idioms that use the word "excavate" as a key component.)
Verb
- remove the inner part or the core of
- the mining company wants to excavate the hillside
- form by hollowing
- Carnegie had a lake excavated for Princeton University's rowing team
- excavate a cavity
- find by digging in the ground
- I dug up an old box in the garden
- recover through digging
- Schliemann excavated Troy
- excavate gold