What are some opposite words for excavation?
Antonyms for excavation
ˌɛks kəˈveɪ ʃənex·ca·va·tion
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excavation, digging, dignoun
the act of digging
"there's an interesting excavation going on near Princeton"
Synonyms:
barb, dig, jab, slam, shot, shaft, archeological site, digging, jibe, gibe, miningdig, excavation, archeological sitenoun
the site of an archeological exploration
"they set up camp next to the dig"
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barb, dig, jab, slam, shot, shaft, archeological site, digging, jibe, gibe, miningexcavationnoun
a hole in the ground made by excavating
Synonyms:
digging, dig, archeological site, miningmining, excavationnoun
the act of extracting ores or coal etc from the earth
Synonyms:
digging, minelaying, archeological site, dig, mining
How to use excavation in a sentence?
This site is a significant discovery the most comprehensive modern excavation of a Roman cemetery in Somerset.
We need to have a plan for excavation in Assam to recover material culture and to reconstruct social and cultural behavior of these groups of people.
It literally happened on the last day of the excavation, … right in front of our eyes and those of the excited students, an unusual ceramic vessel c. 18 cm high (7 inches) was exposed, atop of is the image of a person….
Finding the location of Maryland’s original settlement is truly exciting news for our state and will give us an opportunity to reconnect with our pre-colonial and early colonial years, the state has been proud to support the study of St. Mary’s Fort and looks forward to further excavation of the area as we approach our state’s 400th anniversary.
Our work continues to find the graves of our fellow Tulsans who went missing during the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre. Today, we begin a test excavation in Oaklawn Cemetery to determine what is causing an underground anomaly found by geophysical scanning conducted earlier this year, because the scan is consistent with a mass grave, a team of some of the foremost researchers in the nation have assembled in Tulsa to assess both the presence and the condition of any human remains at the site in question.
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