excavate   (Sound)

The verb excavate has 4 senses

• excavate, unearth -- (recover through digging; "Schliemann excavated Troy"; "excavate gold")


• excavate, dig up, turn up -- (find by digging in the ground; "I dug up an old box in the garden")


• excavate -- (form by hollowing; "Carnegie had a lake excavated for Princeton University's rowing team"; "excavate a cavity")


• excavate, dig, hollow -- (remove the inner part or the core of; "the mining company wants to excavate the hillside")