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Meaning of excavate in the English Dictionary
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"excavate" in British English
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excavateverb [I or T]
UK /ek.sk.vet/ US /ek.sk.vet/
to remove earth that is covering very old objectsburied in
the ground in order to discover things about the past:Ice age bones are being
excavated in the caves.
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Archaeology
synonyms and related words:
archaeological
archaeologist
archaeology
archeology
artefact
carbon dating
dig
industrial archaeology
uncover
unearth
excavation
noun [C or U] UK /eks.kve.n/ US /eks.kve.n/
Excavation
on the site is likely to continue for several years.She has taken part in
several excavations of Roman settlementsacross Europe.
(Definition of excavate from the Cambridge Advanced Learners Dictionary & Thesaurus Cambridge
University Press)
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