To excavate means to dig or remove earth, rocks, or other materials from a site, typically with the goal of uncovering artifacts, structures, or other evidence of past human activity. It is a method used in Archaeology to explore and study ancient civilizations or historical sites. Excavation involves careful and systematic digging, recording, and analysis of what is found.
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The archaeologists will excavate the site next month to uncover ancient artifacts buried under the ground.
The archaeologists began to excavate the ancient ruins in search of valuable artifacts.
hollow out, mine, quarry, excavate, sccop out, tunnel, burrow, forage, delve
"Excavate" means to dig a tunnel or a hole.
Excavate is not a prefix; it is a word. It does contain the prefix "ex-" which means "out" in this instance.
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The archaeologists will excavate the site next month to uncover ancient artifacts buried under the ground.
the explorers continued to EXCAVATE the dirt for fossils.
The builders will excavate at the work site
Excavate means to dig up, generally out of the ground. Example sentence: A bull dozer was used to excavate the foundation of the building.
It is difficult to excavate rocks from a building site.
The team of archaeolgists will now begin to excavate the site.
The archaeologists began to excavate the ancient ruins in search of valuable artifacts.
The noun forms of the verb to excavate are excavator, excavation, and the gerund, excavating.
hollow out, mine, quarry, excavate, sccop out, tunnel, burrow, forage, delve