Excavate(v. t.) To hollow out; to form cavity or hole in; to make hollow by cutting, scooping, or digging; as, to excavate a ball; to excavate the earth.
Excavate(v. t.) To form by hollowing; to shape, as a cavity, or anything that is hollow; as, to excavate a canoe, a cellar, a channel.
Excavate(v. t.) To dig out and remove, as earth.
Excavated(imp. & p. p.) of Excavate
Excavating(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Excavate
Excavation(n.) The act of excavating, or of making hollow, by cutting, scooping, or digging out a part of a solid mass.
Excavation(n.) A cavity formed by cutting, digging, or scooping.
Excavation(n.) An uncovered cutting in the earth, in distinction from a covered cutting or tunnel.
Excavation(n.) The material dug out in making a channel or cavity.
Excavator(n.) One who, or that which, excavates or hollows out; a machine, as a dredging machine, or a tool, for excavating.
Excave(v. t.) To excavate.
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