To excavate is to remove or find by digging. If you have rocky soil in your garden, you may have to excavate it to remove the rocks and replace them with additional soil.
To hollow out; to form cavity or hole in; to make hollow by cutting, scooping, or digging;
Verb
remove the inner part or the core of; "the mining company wants to excavate the hillsite"
Verb
form by hollowing; "Carnegie had a lake excavated for Princeton University''s rowing team"; "excavate a cavity"
Verb
find by digging in the ground; "I dug up an old box in the garden"
Verb
lay bare through digging; "Schliemann excavated Troy"
v. t.
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.
v. t.
To form by hollowing; to shape, as a cavity, or
anything that is hollow; as, to excavate a canoe, a cellar, a channel.
v. t.
To dig out and remove, as earth.
Excavate
The material excavated was usually sand.
To hollow out; to form cavity or hole in; to make hollow by cutting, scooping, or digging;
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