英语词汇“excavate”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

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.

Construction crews also excavate when they remove material from the ground. Workers slowly excavate subways tunnels using explosives to break up the rock and earth. Then the workers clear away the materials, hollowing out a tunnel as they go. It often takes a lot of time and effort to excavate. But most people would agree a new subway line is dynamite!

WORD FAMILY

excavate: excavated, excavates, excavating, excavation, excavator+/excavation: excavations/excavator: excavators

USAGE EXAMPLES

Perhaps now, he agreed, they might excavate the word, slap it on signage and claim, with evidence, that it means something about royalty.

Washington Post(Dec 30, 2016)

This $99.3 million project involves lowering an existing levee and shore armoring, excavating channels and constructing a new levee alignment.

Seattle Times(Dec 27, 2016)

A documented dated to 243 A.D., excavated in North Africa, marks his birthday as March 28.

Salon(Dec 25, 2016)

1v recover through digging

Schliemann excavated Troy
excavate gold

Syn|Hypo|Hyper

unearth

dig, dig out, dig up

remove, harvest, or recover by digging

bring out, reveal, uncover, unveil

make visible

2v find by digging in the ground

Syn|Hypo|Hyper

dig up, turn up
locate, turn up

discover the location of; determine the place of; find by searching or examining

grub out, grub up

dig up

nuzzle

dig out with the snout

disinter, exhume

dig up for reburial or for medical investigation; of dead bodies

obtain

come into possession of

3v remove the inner part or the core of

the mining company wants to excavate the hillside

Syn|Hypo|Hyper

dig, hollow

drive

excavate horizontally

ditch, trench

cut a trench in, as for drainage

remove, take, take away, withdraw

remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract

4v form by hollowing

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

Hyper

core out, hollow, hollow out

remove the interior of

单词	excavate
释义	excavate (once / 883 pages) v 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. Construction crews also excavate when they remove material from the ground. Workers slowly excavate subways tunnels using explosives to break up the rock and earth. Then the workers clear away the materials, hollowing out a tunnel as they go. It often takes a lot of time and effort to excavate. But most people would agree a new subway line is dynamite! WORD FAMILY excavate: excavated, excavates, excavating, excavation, excavator+/excavation: excavations/excavator: excavators USAGE EXAMPLES Perhaps now, he agreed, they might excavate the word, slap it on signage and claim, with evidence, that it means something about royalty. Washington Post(Dec 30, 2016) This $99.3 million project involves lowering an existing levee and shore armoring, excavating channels and constructing a new levee alignment. Seattle Times(Dec 27, 2016) A documented dated to 243 A.D., excavated in North Africa, marks his birthday as March 28. Salon(Dec 25, 2016) 1v recover through digging Schliemann excavated Troy excavate gold Syn\|Hypo\|Hyper unearth dig, dig out, dig up remove, harvest, or recover by digging bring out, reveal, uncover, unveil make visible 2v find by digging in the ground Syn\|Hypo\|Hyper dig up, turn up locate, turn up discover the location of; determine the place of; find by searching or examining grub out, grub up dig up nuzzle dig out with the snout disinter, exhume dig up for reburial or for medical investigation; of dead bodies obtain come into possession of 3v remove the inner part or the core of the mining company wants to excavate the hillside Syn\|Hypo\|Hyper dig, hollow drive excavate horizontally ditch, trench cut a trench in, as for drainage remove, take, take away, withdraw remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract 4v form by hollowing Carnegie had a lake excavated for Princeton University's rowing team excavate a cavity Hyper core out, hollow, hollow out remove the interior of
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