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    ex·ca·vate
    [ˈekskəˌvāt]
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    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"
    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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    What does the word 'excavate' mean?
    The word 'excavate' is derived from the Latin 'excavātus', past participle of 'excavāre' which means 'to hollow out, form a hole in'. It is a verbal derivative of 'cavus', meaning 'hollow, concave'. Excavate has been in use since 1599 in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1.

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    What are the different types of excavation?
    Other forms: excavated; excavating; excavates To excavate is to remove or find by digging. If you have rocky soil in your garden, you may have to excavate it to remove the rocks and replace them with additional soil. Construction crews also excavate when they remove material from the ground.

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    How do you excavate a building?
    To excavate is to remove or find by digging. If you have rocky soil in your garden, you may have to excavate it to remove the rocks and replace them with additional soil. Construction crews also excavate when they remove material from the ground. Workers slowly excavate subways tunnels using explosives to break up the rock and earth.

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    Archaeology studies the human past through the excavation of things people made and used thousands of years ago -- from architecture to objects like pottery bowls and animal bones from meals. Excavation definition: . See examples of EXCAVATION used in a sentence.

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