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    ex·ca·vate
    [ˈekskəˌvāt]
    verb
    excavate (verb) · excavates (third person present) · excavated (past tense) · excavated (past participle) · excavating (present participle)
    1. make (a hole or channel) by digging:
      "the cheapest way of doing this was to excavate a long trench"
      • dig out material from (the ground):
        "the ground was largely excavated by hand"
      • extract (material) from the ground by digging:
        "a very large amount of gravel would be excavated to form the channel"
    2. remove earth carefully and systematically from (an area) in order to find buried remains:
      "the site was excavated in 1975"
      • reveal or extract (buried remains) by carefully removing earth:
        "clothing and weapons were excavated from the burial site"
    Origin
    late 16th century: from Latin excavat- ‘hollowed out’, from the verb excavare, from ex- ‘out’ + cavare ‘make or become hollow’ (from cavus ‘hollow’).
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