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"excavate" in British English
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excavateverb [I or T]
UK /ek.sk.vet/ US /ek.sk.vet/
to remove earth that is covering very old objectsburied in
the ground in order to discover things about the past:Ice age bones are being
excavated in the caves.

to dig a hole or channel in the ground, especially with

amachine:In tin mining today, workers excavate tunnels horizontally from
avertical shaft.

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Archaeology
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archaeological

archaeologist

archaeology
archeology

artefact
carbon dating

dig
industrial archaeology

uncover

unearth

excavation
noun [C or U] UK /eks.kve.n/ US /eks.kve.n/
Excavation

on the site is likely to continue for several years.She has taken part in
several excavations of Roman settlementsacross Europe.
(Definition of excavate from the Cambridge Advanced Learners Dictionary & Thesaurus Cambridge
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