excavate
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Definition of excavate:
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" remove the inner part or the core of; "the mining company wants to excavate the hillside" |