Verb: excavate 'ek-sku,veyt
- Form by hollowing
"Carnegie had a lake excavated for Princeton University's rowing team"; "excavate a cavity"
- Remove the inner part or the core of
"the mining company wants to excavate the hillside";
- dig, hollow
- Find by digging in the ground
"I excavated an old box in the garden";
- dig up, turn up
- Recover through digging
"Schliemann excavated Troy"; "excavate gold";
- unearth, dig up
Derived forms: excavating, excavates, excavated
See also: cut into
Type of: bring out, core out, hollow, hollow out, obtain, remove, reveal, take, take away, unveil, withdraw
Encyclopedia: Excavate