Definition of excavates Excavates

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What does excavates mean?

Part of speech

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  • excavates, verb, present, 3rd person singular of excavate (infinitive).

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Verb

excavates, excavating, excavated  

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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Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary šŸ“˜

  • 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 Ī©

  • 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 šŸ“•

  • 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.]

Part of speech

šŸ”¤
  • excavate, verb, present, 1st person singular of excavate (infinitive).
  • excavate, verb (infinitive).

Pronunciation

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