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US
/ˈɛkskəˌveɪt/
]
[ UK /ˈɛkskəvˌeɪt/ ]
[ UK /ˈɛkskəvˌeɪt/ ]
VERB
-
remove the inner part or the core of
the mining company wants to excavate the hillside -
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
How To Use excavate In A Sentence
- I could perceive no trace of a metallic vein, so thoroughly had it been worked out, but scattered over the hillside with schist, talcose slate, and fragments of quartz, was a great deal of scoriae, showing that metal of some kind had been excavated, and that the smelting had been done on the spot. Wanderings by southern waters, eastern Aquitaine
- However, the leats were not originally built to supply mills with power, but were excavated for the draining and reclamation of land between the city wall and the Exe.
- He excavates the skull, and finds six handfuls of ambergris.
- A team from the Oxford Archaeological Unit was engaged to excavate and reveal the archaeology for a public audience.
- Nowadays tunnels are mainly lined with concrete segments or with concrete pumped in between the excavated ground and internal shuttering.
- Tintagel Castle, the reputed birthplace of King Arthur, is being excavated professionally for the first time in more than 50 years.
- In some cases, peat excavated from mines or reserve pits has been stockpiled.
- Cemeteries also have been excavated at the small towns of Kalibangan and Lothal that essentially duplicate the evidence from Harappa.
- Also, they must excavate to remove foundations and basements, and they must grade the site at the completion of the demolition job.
- The household tax system of collecting articles by the nine grades families was reflected in the Wu Bamboo Slips excavated in Zhoumalou, Changsha.