to excavate
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5.8
- verb
- /ˈɛkskəˌveɪt/
:
excavar
- The archaeologists plan to excavate the ancient ruins to uncover hidden artifacts.
- archaeologists excavated
- excavating a site
- team excavated
A lot more has been done with excavating sites in England.
- A lot more has been done with excavating sites in England.
- Oh, we found giant skeletons when they excavated this mound.
- I have excavated those fossils when I was in school.
- They found all kinds of artifacts, but they only excavated the main part of the the city.
- But he remember was excavating the Hellenistic shrine of Adad Nadinace.
- So I used to work when I was in Graduate School, I spent three years excavating a tar pit site down in Ecuador.
- Now this is extracted from bones from three different specimens caught, caught, excavated from one site and they found a mutation.
Examples
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Now another part of this site has been excavated, revealing that one ring is oval, not circular.
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We thought it might be the upper part of some buried structure... ...so we excavated out on all sides.
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That meant they needed either to excavate new sites or to find material on the art market.
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If we did not excavate it, and if we did not see this, then no one else would see it, right?
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"The water table is much higher here now, so we cannot excavate a lot of stuff," explains Davis.
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And as I was excavating down, I started to come across this pot.
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There are other sites still to be excavated and many unanswered questions.
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Chapman is hoping to find funding to excavate one of these mega-settlements.
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In every house that was excavated they found jars of grain.
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Archaeologists have now excavated four homestead sites here, which they refer to as compounds.
Academic text (2011)
Synonyms
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1.0
To move earth with a tool to make a hole
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3.0
To find something while searching or by chance
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2.0
To take something out of the ground by digging
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3.7
To look at something carefully, often by searching under the surface
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3.4
Find and take out something that is hidden or forgotten
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4.2
To dig up something buried in the ground
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6.3
To dig and loosen soil, for example with a spade
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Etymology
The word excavate comes from Latin parts ex- 'out' and cavare 'to hollow', and it is related to the English word cave. A helpful image is archaeologists 'digging out' buried things from a hollow, so to excavate is to dig up and uncover objects.