excavate

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  1. transitive verb To make a hole in; hollow out: excavate an ore-rich hillside.
  2. transitive verb To form by hollowing out.
  3. transitive verb To remove by digging or scooping out.
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  • The wind bites though, threatening to excavate or bury us. —  F ;SF; - vol 088 issue 02 - February 1995
  • Often Hebrew words are a combination of more than one English word, and it can be incredibly fulfilling to "excavate" your passages so when you are reading the Hebrew up there, you have a real connection to what you are saying. —  Articles
  • VIDEO: Archaeologists excavate 2100-year-old wall in Jerusalem —  Articles
  • Army Corps of Engineers to fill 66.8 acres of non-tidal wetlands and excavate 3.9 acres of estuarine wetlands. —  The Daily News - News
  • The process has its own rewards; you make your own discoveries as you excavate the archive, effectively re-excavating the site, and freed from any prior emotional or intellectual involvement you can take a very dispassionate look at the evidence. —  British Blogs
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  1. Latin excavāre, excavāt-, to hollow out : ex-, ex- + cavāre, to hollow (from cavus, hollow; see keuə- in Indo-European roots).

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  1. from Latin excavatus, past participle of excavare, hollow out, from ex, out, + cavare, make hollow, from cavus, hollow: see cave. Cf. excave.
 

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/ˈɛkskəveɪt/
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