Synonyms for excavate
ˈɛks kəˌveɪtex·ca·vate

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1. excavate

   Synonyms:
   dig, hollow, trench, discover, deserter

   Antonyms:
   bury, fill level, conceal, inter, inhume

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1. excavate, unearthverb

   recover through digging

   "Schliemann excavated Troy"; "excavate gold"

   Synonyms:
   hollow, dig up, unearth, dig, turn up

2. excavate, dig up, turn upverb

   find by digging in the ground

   "I dug up an old box in the garden"

   Synonyms:
   dig, turn up, hollow, turn out, fold up, dig up, locate, fold, surface, come out, come on, show up, dig out, unearth, prove

3. excavateverb

   form by hollowing

   "Carnegie had a lake excavated for Princeton University's rowing team"; "excavate a cavity"

   Synonyms:
   hollow, dig up, unearth, dig, turn up

4. excavate, dig, hollowverb

   remove the inner part or the core of

   "the mining company wants to excavate the hillside"

   Synonyms:
   stab, dig, cut into, prod, grind, travail, core out, turn over, jab, delve, hollow, labour, savvy, comprehend, compass, poke, apprehend, get the picture, grok, unearth, turn up, labor, dig out, grasp, hollow out, drudge, moil, toil, dig up

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1. excavateverb

   Synonyms:
   hollow, hollow out, scoop out, dig out, cut out

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1. List of paraphrases for "excavate":

   dig

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1. Nick Elsden:

   Construction for Crossrail is providing rare and exciting opportunities for archaeologists to excavate and study areas of London that would ordinarily be inaccessible, there are up to 19.6 feet of archaeology on site, in what is one of the oldest areas of the city, so we stand to learn a great deal.

2. Jeremy DeSilva:

   Mary Leakey made exquisitely detailed maps of the footprint localities. From Mary Leakey map, we were able to approximate where the tracks should be. We began to dig, hoping for the best, but fearing instead that forty years of seasonal rains had washed them away, the soil was hard as cement and it took a hammer and chisel to reach the footprint layer, which we then needed to excavate delicately with a hard-bristled brush and tongue depressor. Fortunately, the footprints were beautifully preserved.

3. Ric Gillespie:

   If we were continuing to excavate the castaway campsite at the southeast end of the atoll I would say that we could ‘expect’ to make further discoveries, it’s an established archaeological site where we know a castaway died - apparently female and of Earhart’s height and ethnic origin - and where we have found artifacts that speak of an American woman of the 1930s.

4. Mark Milburn:

   When we find cannons, we’re quite excited because, if we’re allowed to excavate around them, there will be ‘concretions’ of items near the cannon from when the ship sank.

5. Steve Membery:

   Its relatively rare to excavate this number of Roman burials in our region, but in particular, in this case, we are very confident that all the burials are people who worked on a Roman villa estate.