excavate

excavate is a 8-letter English word with 7 senses as transitive verb and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To hollow out; to form cavity or hole in; to make hollow by cutting, scooping, or digging; as, to excavate a ball; to excavate the earth. Face value is 20 in Scrabble and 22 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

8 letters · Scrabble 20 · Words With Friends 22 · 7 senses

Definitions

1. transitive verb. To hollow out; to form cavity or hole in; to make hollow by cutting, scooping, or digging; as, to excavate a ball; to excavate the earth.
2. transitive verb. To form by hollowing; to shape, as a cavity, or anything that is hollow; as, to excavate a canoe, a cellar, a channel.
3. transitive verb. To dig out and remove, as earth.
4. verb. remove the inner part or the core of

   "the mining company wants to excavate the hillside"

   Synonyms: dig, hollow

5. verb. form by hollowing

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

   "excavate a cavity"

6. verb. find by digging in the ground

   "I dug up an old box in the garden"

7. verb. recover through digging

   "Schliemann excavated Troy"

   "excavate gold"

   Synonyms: unearth

Synonyms

dig, hollow, unearth

Common word forms

excavated, excavates, excavating

Words from these letters

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