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Meanings of excavation in English
The removal of earth from its natural position.\ (Source: HARRIS)
Synonyms
Examples for "dig"
Examples for "dig"
1
Rob didn't know what to expect at the dig, following the 'accident'.
2
For example, we'll need to dig into this whole Kahverengi International matter.
3
Here it is; you may follow us while we dig it out:
4
Some of the survivors were compelled to dig graves for the seven.
5
I dig down looking for things that existed a long time ago.'
1
Good luck digging to find the notifications you really wanted to read.
2
Ne-Yo: I'm digging everything that's going on right now at Cash Money.
3
Next step: Thinking of the future instead of digging up the past.
4
He rowed strongly if not particularly well, digging deep into the water.
5
Its first money-making activities were the movie industry & digging oil wells.
1
Here was a battery with earthworks; there, a fort; beyond, a signal-staff.
2
We kept the earthworks and trenches of the front on our right.
3
Now the ramparts and earthworks are overrun and almost hidden by roses.
4
The messenger would have to run the gauntlet of the enemy's earthworks.
5
Several had been posted behind some earthworks thrown up by the enemy.
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This is not a standard archeological site.
2
Museum director Maxwell Anderson discovered evidence that the piece might have been stolen from an archeological site and contacted Turkish officials.
3
Kit Howden, chair of local conservation group Friends of Maungawhau, said Mount Eden was a world-class archeological site which was being damaged by cars.
4
Mr Brown says despite the months that have now passed he is no closer to getting answers over the disturbance of the archeological site.
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At that time, the key to an archeological site lay in its stratigraphy-thelayering of artifacts with such things as bone, charcoal, and sediments.
Usage of excavation in English
1
Year after year, I witness the excavation of the new mass graves.
2
The amount of material found was significant, given the relatively shallow excavation.
3
An excavation of graves that she no longer had any responsibility for.
4
The manger where the animals fed is an excavation in the rock.
5
It was unearthed during excavation work at the Tafuna site last week.
6
Breitner was evidently worried about the safety of such a serious excavation.
7
Three months of intensive excavation followed, during which Phipps lost 15 pounds.
8
Fred let her get ahead and paused to target the excavation equipment.
9
The difference in ease of excavation is due to the following circumstance.
10
Schliemann resolved to put his convictions to the test of actual excavation.
11
All the excavation we did last year has been undone by driftsand.
12
It indicated that his parents died before him, the excavation leader said.
13
There would be time for a quick visit to the excavation first.
14
As in the first cave, excavation would be very difficult and expensive.
15
In truth, we were imprisoned-boundas it were, in a vast excavation.
16
The excavation of the sewer of Paris has been no slight task.
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Translations for excavation
Excavation through the time
Excavation across language varieties
Ireland
Common
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Common