The noun forms of the verb to excavate are excavator, excavation, and the gerund, excavating.
Mine , excavate ,
They used the backhoe to excavate the new basement. They were unable to excavate the car from the pond.
Excavation is a noun and so doesn't have a past tense.The past tense of excavate is excavated.
They decided to excavate the ruins.We need to excavate the road in order to lay down new pipes.
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The noun forms of the verb to excavate are excavator, excavation, and the gerund, excavating.
excavate
Mine , excavate ,
They used the backhoe to excavate the new basement. They were unable to excavate the car from the pond.
The builders will excavate at the work site
the explorers continued to EXCAVATE the dirt for fossils.
Excavate means to dig up, generally out of the ground. Example sentence: A bull dozer was used to excavate the foundation of the building.
Excavation is a noun and so doesn't have a past tense.The past tense of excavate is excavated.
It is difficult to excavate rocks from a building site.
The team of archaeolgists will now begin to excavate the site.
They decided to excavate the ruins.We need to excavate the road in order to lay down new pipes.
Excavate is not a prefix; it is a word. It does contain the prefix "ex-" which means "out" in this instance.