Definition of excavate Excavate
/ɛˈkskʌvejˌt/ - [ekskuveyt] - ex•ca•vate
We found 16 definitions of excavate from 6 different sources.
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| excavate - remove the inner part or the core of; "the mining company wants to excavate the hillside" | ||
| dig, hollow | ||
| take away, remove, withdraw, take take out or remove; "take out the chicken after adding the vegetables" | ||
| drive move into a desired direction of discourse; "What are you driving at?" | ||
| ditch, trench crash or crash-land; "ditch a car"; "ditch a plane" | ||
| excavate - find by digging in the ground; "I dug up an old box in the garden" | ||
| dig up, turn up | ||
| obtain come into possession of; "How did you obtain the visa?" | ||
| grub out, grub up dig up; "grub up roots and tree stumps" | ||
| nuzzle dig out with the snout; "the pig nuzzled the truffle" | ||
| locate, turn up discover the location of; determine the place of; find by searching or examining; "Can you locate your cousins in the Midwest?"; "My search turned up nothing" | ||
| disinter, exhume dig up for reburial or for medical investigation; of dead bodies | ||
| excavate - recover through digging; "Schliemann excavated Troy"; "excavate gold" | ||
| unearth | ||
| uncover, reveal, unveil, bring out remove all or part of one's clothes to show one's body; "uncover your belly"; "The man exposed himself in the subway" | ||
| dig up, dig out, dig dig out from underneath earth or snow | ||
| excavate - form by hollowing; "Carnegie had a lake excavated for Princeton University's rowing team"; "excavate a cavity" | ||
| core out, hollow out, hollow remove the interior of; "hollow out a tree trunk" | ||
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Wiktionary 
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- excavate (v. t.)
To hollow out; to form cavity or hole in; to make hollow by cutting, scooping, or digging; as, to excavate a ball; to excavate the earth. - excavate (v. t.)
To form by hollowing; to shape, as a cavity, or anything that is hollow; as, to excavate a canoe, a cellar, a channel. - excavate (v. t.)
To dig out and remove, as earth.
OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ω
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excavate
To make a hole in something. -
excavate
To make a hole, tunnel, etc. by removing material. -
excavate
To uncover or open up a structure etc. remaining from earlier times by digging.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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excavate
eks′ka-vāt, v.t. to hollow or scoop out: to dig out.—ns. Excavā′tion, act of excavating: a hollow or cavity made by excavating; Ex′cavator, one who excavates: a machine used for excavating. [L. excavāre—ex, out, cavus, hollow.]
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🔤- excavate, verb, present, 1st person singular of excavate (infinitive).
- excavate, verb (infinitive).
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