- recover through digging; "Schliemann excavated Troy"; "excavate gold"
- find by digging in the ground; "I dug up an old box in the garden"
- form by hollowing; "Carnegie had a lake excavated for Princeton University's rowing team"; "excavate a cavity"
- remove the inner part or the core of; "the mining company wants to excavate the hillside"
- (excavation) the act of digging; "there's an interesting excavation going on near Princeton"
- (excavation) dig: the site of an archeological exploration; "they set up camp next to the dig"
- The excavates are a major kingdom of unicellular eukaryotes, often known as Excavata. The phylogenetic category Excavata contains a variety of free-living and symbiotic forms, and also includes some important parasites of humans.
- (Excavation (medicine)) In medicine, excavation has two meanings: *the act of hollowing out *the space hollowed out, or a natural cavity or pouch
- To make a hole in (something); to hollow; To remove part of (something) by scooping or digging it out; To uncover (something) by removing its covering
- (excavation) the act of excavating, or of making hollow, by cutting, scooping, or digging out a part of a solid mass; a cavity formed by cutting, digging, or scooping; an uncovered cutting in the earth, in distinction from a covered cutting or tunnel; the material dug out in making a channel ...
- (Excavated) Lies in a basin or channel excavated by humans.
- (Excavation) any man-made cut, cavity, trench, or depression in an earth surface, formed by earth removal.
- (Excavation) the systematic digging and recording of an archaeological site.
- (Excavation) The removal of soil for construction purposes.
- (Excavation) a method of data collection in which archaeologists remove the soil matrix and observe and record the provenience and context of archaeological finds.
- (excavation) digging out an area of ground to look for evidence of the past
- (Excavation) The process of clearing trees, removing topsoil and grading land before the foundation is laid.
- (EXCAVATION) Cavity or pit produced by digging the earth in preparation for construction.
- (EXCAVATION) Digging up and removing artifacts and features from an archaeological site in order to analyze and predict past human behavior.
- (EXCAVATION) means removal of surface covering, soil, pavement, etc. to expose underground equipment to view or to prepare a subsurface area for future construction.
- (Excavation) Any area where layers of soil or other material are systematically displaced and recorded in order to examine past human activity.
- (Excavation) Cutting or digging the earth's surface altering the original landscape by making a hole or a hollow (pit).
- (Excavation) Kumhrar·Agam Kuan·Barabar Caves·Nalanda·Vikramsila
- (Excavation) Removal of excess earth from roadway in preparation for new vertical and horizontal alignments.
- (Excavation) Removal of soil during rough grading.