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excavate English

Meaning excavate meaning

What does excavate mean?
Definitions in simple English

excavate Verb

— If you excavate something, you make a hole (in it) by digging. The dirt nearby was excavated for future construction. The ground here was excavated by machine. — If you excavate something, you find it by digging. The artifacts near the dig site were excavated carefully.

excavate

— verb recover through digging Schliemann excavated Troy excavate gold — verb remove the inner part or the core of the mining company wants to excavate the hillside — verb form by hollowing Carnegie had a lake excavated for Princeton University's rowing team excavate a cavity — verb (= dig up) find by digging in the ground I dug up an old box in the garden

Synonyms excavate synonyms

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excavate English » English

dig hollow dig up dig out delve unearth mine burrow turn up hollow out grub drill dredge trench sink scoop out quarry hole bore winning and opening win over weaken vanquish use up tranquilize take out take down tackle surmount stope still soothe slay slaughter shovel shoot dead shoot scoop up scoop sap rout up rout rootle root ream quiten quiet quarrying punch pull down

Topics excavate topics

What do people use excavate to talk about?
Work and occupation

Working with buildings
Physical actions Divide into pieces

Dig

Conjugation excavate conjugation

How do you conjugate excavate?

excavate · verb

Examples excavate examples

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We shall excavate the eternal hills.
Excavate.
He sent his huge armies out to excavate ancient ruins. for links to the past.
Continue to excavate.
Geraldo Rivera's coming, and he's gonna excavate the basement of the Klopeks!
The mean and melancholy history of Countess Olenska's European marriage was a buried treasure he hastened to excavate.
We might need to use phasers to excavate it.
We converted torpedo launchers to blast away rock and excavate these tunnels.
I let him excavate around the mine allow him to rent a room in my town all for a fair 60 percent of anything he might unearth.
First, we open our craniotomy and then we excavate the haematoma.
More importantly, if we're able to collect this evidence, surely they'll let us excavate.
We can't excavate the whole fuckin' place.
Then, what I propose is that we clear away the old debris, get right down to the rock floor, and only then can we begin to excavate properly.
I have taken it upon myself to excavate the buried treasure of the Heike.
They're going to Egypt to excavate a tomb.
We can use your equipment to excavate parallel to the well and then cut over to her in a cross tunnel.
How impressed was the big, big client to see you excavate your nose?
I'm getting to that. We may have to excavate farther, so I'd need permission to.
Excavate!
We're gonna need some tools to excavate.!
Miners will excavate it one day. But not for ages and ages.
You will excavate sufficient space to form a cave.
Thats what you have to excavate.
According to my information, this whole area is a warren of old ammunition tunnels which he would have helped excavate.
I came here to excavate.
We may have to excavate farther, so I'd need permission to.
Did they excavate them?
And it was a pretty horrific thing, as you can imagine, to mine, to excavate.
His next step would have been to excavate, with or without the estate's permission.
I must excavate it.

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They could excavate specimens on private lands, and on public lands, too, under the supervision of scientists who know how to recover important information about what their surroundings, such as what the rocks say about the fossil when it was alive.

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