excavation
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- noun
- /ˌɛkskəˈveɪʃən/
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excavación
- Over five years of excavation, Liu has uncovered a surprisingly interconnected and prosperous settlement.
- archaeological excavation
- excavation site
- recent excavation
that can be a tremendously troublesome excavation process
- that can be a tremendously troublesome excavation process
- So it was a momentous, wondrous excavation, and I'm proud to have been part of it.
- I did roofing, I did concrete, I did excavation.
- And there was during the excavations, they, they, they did some interesting things.
Examples
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Kenyon describes it very clearly and in detail in her excavation report.
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Can you tell us why you oppose excavation of the Temple Mount?
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"If we were doing this in real time, this kind of excavation might take weeks.
Fiction book (1998) -
-Why are you so upset if it's just an excavation?
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First, I must see your excavation.
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Further excavation on our part revealed another, deeper grave... containing two sets of human remains.
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Most of Wednesday I'll be at the Ramat Rakhel excavation that Dad helps to finance.
Fiction book (1993) -
Which is why you can travel right now to Turkey or Syria or Israel or Jordan or Egypt, and you can see excavations of towns.
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The excavation is enormous.
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The archaeological team uncovered ancient artifacts during their recent excavation in the valley.
Synonyms
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1.0
Making a hole in the ground using tools like a shovel
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A place where people remove earth to find old objects
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Removing earth to uncover something buried, like an old object or body
A hole dug in the ground to get stone or clay
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Etymology
Excavation comes from Latin parts ex- ('out') and cavare ('to hollow'). So an excavation is the act of hollowing out the ground, digging earth out as archaeologists or builders do.