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The meaning of EXCAVATE is to form a cavity or hole in. How to use excavate in a sentence.
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to remove earth that is covering very old objects buried in the ground in order to discover things about the past: Ice age bones are being excavated in the caves. to dig a hole or channel in the ground, especially with a machine: In tin mining today, workers excavate tunnels horizontally from a vertical shaft.
Excavate definition: to make hollow by removing the inner part; make a hole or cavity in; form into a hollow, as by digging. See examples of EXCAVATE used in a sentence.
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.
1. to remove (soil, earth, etc) by digging; dig out. 2. to make (a hole, cavity, or tunnel) in (solid matter) by hollowing or removing the centre or inner part: to excavate a tooth. 3. (Archaeology) to unearth (buried objects) methodically in an attempt to discover information about the past.
to remove earth that is covering very old objects buried in the ground in order to discover things about the past: Ice age bones are being excavated in the caves. to dig a hole or channel in the ground, especially with a machine: In tin mining today, workers excavate tunnels horizontally from a vertical shaft.
1. to make hollow by removing the inner part; make a hole or cavity in; form into a hollow, as by digging. The ground was excavated for a foundation. 2. to make (a hole, tunnel, etc.) by removing material. 3. to dig or scoop out (earth, sand, etc.) 4. to expose or lay bare by or as if by digging; unearth.
