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excavation English

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What does excavation mean?

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excavation Noun

— Excavation is the act of digging something, especially an archaeological site. — An excavation is the site that is being or has been excavated.

excavation

— noun (= digging, dig) the act of digging there's an interesting excavation going on near Princeton — noun a hole in the ground made by excavating — noun (= mining) the act of extracting ores or coal etc from the earth — noun (= dig) the site of an archeological exploration they set up camp next to the dig

Synonyms excavation synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as excavation?

excavation English » English

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Topics excavation topics

What do people use excavation to talk about?

Physical actions Divide into pieces

Dig

What words refer to a hole dug in the ground?

hole pit mine excavation tunnel burrow trench ditch shaft foxhole crater cave cavern grotto

Examples excavation examples

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Simple sentences

Human remains were found during the excavation.

Movie subtitles

Not until I've got every scrap of evidence out of that excavation to make full tests.

Tell me. How much time do you need with this excavation of yours?

Hmm. The famous excavation.

That's for excavation and foundation.

Now our immediate problem would be the joint one of fire control and excavation.

Excavation not of the dead.

I'm sorry, I'm due at the excavation.

Can you say what happened tonight in the excavation?

You're going to admit people to the excavation?

Professor Wilkins finished his excavation today.

That excavation, a wine cellar perhaps?

There's some excavation going on there.

Somebody call for an excavation expert?

He may well be down at the excavation site.

Gigond's father has an excavation company.

The side of this hill has been hollowed out. And here's an acre of canvas covering the excavation.

Listen, could you come down and do a little excavation job for me?

Bleibtreu's losing his marbles. He put all the engineers on excavation.

No, I was having these made. I'm sorry, I'm due at the excavation.

After all, I think it's only logical that you two should be the one to make a film record of the excavation of the cave.

And I suppose in his excavation work he used explosives?

The excavation must be ready for the pump's installation.

How's the excavation going?

No, no. Oh, yes, I'll need a few men - for the excavation work.

Place of excavation.

I don't know about this excavation.

It's underground, about 60 miles south of Jerusalem. There's some excavation going on there.

The excavation of the skull was brilliant.

It was data from here which led me to the excavation sites in Kenya.

But evidence from the excavation. Digging..and the findings I made posed a question to which I have to date no satisfactory answer.

News and current affairs

Chaotic excavation and exhumation--often by family members desperate to learn the fate of loved ones--and unprofessional treatment of the evidence aggravates the challenges of uncovering the truth.

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