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v. To make a hole in; hollow out: excavate an ore-rich hillside.

v. To form by hollowing out.

v. To remove by digging or scooping out.

v. To expose or uncover by or as if by digging: excavate an archaeological site.

verb-intransitive. To engage in digging, hollowing out, or removing.

v. To make a hole in (something); to hollow.

v. To remove part of (something) by scooping or digging it out.

v. To uncover (something) by removing its covering.

n. A major grouping of unicellular eukaryotes, of the clade Excavata

v. To hollow out; to form cavity or hole in; to make hollow by cutting, scooping, or digging

v. To form by hollowing; to shape, as a cavity, or anything that is hollow.

v. To dig out and remove, as earth.

To hollow out, or make a hollow or cavity in, by digging or scooping out the inner part, or by removing extraneous matter: as, to excavate a tumulus or a buried city for the purpose of exploring it; to excavate a cocoanut.

To form by scooping or hollowing out; make by digging out material, as from the earth: as, to excavate a tunnel or a cellar.

In zoology: Formed as if by excavation; hollowed, but having the inner surface irregularly rounded.

Widely and irregularly notched: said of a margin or mark.

v. form by hollowing

v. find by digging in the ground

v. recover through digging

v. remove the inner part or the core of

"Kiesling says that Clifford and his crew, among other things, concealed the true number of test pits dug at the site from the media and investors to make it appear that a large number of spectacular finds came from one small area, thus prompting the flow of investment money to "excavate" more test pits."

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