excavate

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
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  dig , hollow , dig up , turn up , unearth