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Meanings of
excavate
in English
Catalan
desenterrar
Spanish
encontrar
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Find by digging in the ground.
dig up
turn up
Catalan
desenterrar
Portuguese
escavar
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Remove the inner part or the core of.
hollow
dig
Portuguese
escavar
Portuguese
desenterrar
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Recover through digging.
unearth
Portuguese
desenterrar
Usage of
excavate
in English
1
Too often it has taken a hammer and chisel to
excavate
words.
2
Professor Karim Sadr led a team of achaeologists to
excavate
the area.
3
They
excavate
with their broad-webbed paws deep holes in the fine sand.
4
One more buried relic to
excavate
as soon as I had time.
5
Their goal was to
excavate
Barbara Ayers's grave and recover her body.
6
By seeking for it where it would be most difficult to
excavate
.
7
They would walk it and
excavate
the strange barrow, find their history.
8
In order to find the man, we had to
excavate
for him.
9
The remarkable disclosures at Troy encouraged Schliemann to
excavate
other Homeric sites.
10
We haven't even begun to
excavate
the treasure in the central tomb.
11
The brainy kind
excavate
cavelike nests beneath rocks in the intertidal zone.
12
I'll
excavate
outside the grave itself and work my way down and in.
13
Later, he would use the couple's backhoe to
excavate
their final resting place.
14
He's gone to Bosnia to
excavate
mass graves for the UN.
15
A dredging craft would
excavate
25 million cubic yards of mud.
16
We need to
excavate
it, hopefully something useful will emerge then.
Other examples for "excavate"
Grammar, pronunciation and more
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excavate
Verb
Indicative · Present
Frequent collocations
excavate for
excavate the bodies
excavate a site
excavate caves
excavate additional
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Translations for
excavate
Catalan
desenterrar
descolgar
Spanish
encontrar
excavar
Portuguese
escavar
desenterrar
Excavate
through the time
Excavate
across language varieties
United States of America
Common
United Kingdom
Common