Synonyms for excavation
ˌɛks kəˈveɪ ʃənex·ca·va·tion

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1. 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, mining

2. dig, excavation, archeological sitenoun

   the site of an archeological exploration

   "they set up camp next to the dig"

   Synonyms:
   barb, dig, jab, slam, shot, shaft, archeological site, digging, jibe, gibe, mining

3. excavationnoun

   a hole in the ground made by excavating

   Synonyms:
   digging, dig, archeological site, mining

4. mining, excavationnoun

   the act of extracting ores or coal etc from the earth

   Synonyms:
   digging, minelaying, archeological site, dig, mining

Matched Categories

1. • Artifact
   • Creating By Removal
   • Production

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. excavationnoun

   Synonyms:
   excavating

2. excavationnoun

   Synonyms:
   cutting, cavity, hollow

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1. List of paraphrases for "excavation":

   excavated, digging, exhumation, dig, drilling, searches, excavator, search, pit

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How to use excavation in a sentence?

1. Tulsa Mayor G.T. Bynum:

   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.

2. Matt Gordon:

   I ’m a contractor for excavation and all of my equipment on site was vandalized, for the most part, a majority of the people are for the pipeline. Everybody enjoys gasoline and plastic products. The opponents are shielding themselves with Native Americans. Most of the protesters were White.Line 3 has brought back millions of dollars to the reservations.

3. Tilok Thakuria:

   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.

4. Chapel Hill Professor Jodi Magness:

   We will continue for at least four more years until we have completed the excavation of the synagogue, and then the excavations will end and we will work on publication.

5. Zahi Hawass:

   I really believe that this site needs excavation maybe for the coming 50 years.