Origin: Latin
suffix -ate
Excavate has 6 different meanings across 1 category:
Verb
Noun
1
Any member of a major grouping of unicellular eukaryotes, of the clade Excavata.
Verb
1
recover through digging
"Schliemann excavated Troy"
"excavate gold"
2
find by digging in the ground
"I dug up an old box in the garden"
3
form by hollowing
"Carnegie had a lake excavated for Princeton University's rowing team"
"excavate a cavity"
4
remove the inner part or the core of
"the mining company wants to excavate the hillside"
5
To make a hole in (something); to hollow.
Example Sentences
"Schliemann excavated Troy"
verb
"excavate gold"
verb
"I dug up an old box in the garden"
verb
"Carnegie had a lake excavated for Princeton University's rowing team"
verb
"excavate a cavity"
verb
"the mining company wants to excavate the hillside"
verb
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