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| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | core out, hollow out, hollow |
| Derivation | excavation, excavator |
Carnegie had a lake excavated for Princeton University's rowing team.
excavate a cavity.
Examples of excavate
excavate
And it should give us enough space to excavate when we reach its deepest levels.
From the scientistatwork.blogs.nytimes.com
These universities began a project to excavate the funerary complex of King Aha.
From the en.wikipedia.org
A German group asked the Syrians for permission to excavate but was turned down.
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In 2005, a tip led investigators to excavate a potential grave site in Baghdad.
From the washingtontimes.com
Excavate the path to a depth of 8 inches, which provides a well-drained sub-base.
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You will probably need to dig down no more than a foot to excavate a perennial.
From the boston.com
Then excavate the bed another six to eight inches and pile that on a second tarp.
From the washingtonpost.com
Engineers could excavate a mile-long relatively level tunnel through the hill.
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They want to excavate them and turn the sites of the graves into proper memorials.
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- Recover through digging; "Schliemann excavated Troy"; "excavate gold"
- Find by digging in the ground; "I dug up an old box in the garden"
- Form by hollowing; "Carnegie had a lake excavated for Princeton University's rowing team"; "excavate a cavity"
- Remove the inner part or the core of; "the mining company wants to excavate the hillside"
- (excavation) the act of digging; "there's an interesting excavation going on near Princeton"
- (excavation) dig: the site of an archeological exploration; "they set up camp next to the dig"
- The excavates are a major kingdom of unicellular eukaryotes, often known as Excavata. The phylogenetic category Excavata contains a variety of free-living and symbiotic forms, and also includes some important parasites of humans.
- (Excavation (medicine)) In medicine, excavation has two meanings: *the act of hollowing out *the space hollowed out, or a natural cavity or pouch
- To make a hole in (something); to hollow; To remove part of (something) by scooping or digging it out; To uncover (something) by removing its covering
