excavate

Verbs

  • (v) recover through digging
    • Schliemann excavated Troy
    • excavate gold
    unearth,
  • (v) find by digging in the ground
    • I dug up an old box in the garden
    dig up, turn up,
  • (v) form by hollowing
    • Carnegie had a lake excavated for Princeton University's rowing team
    • excavate a cavity
  • (v) remove the inner part or the core of
    • the mining company wants to excavate the hillside
    hollow, dig,

Synonyms

unearth dig up turn up hollow dig

Words of close approximity