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n. The act or process of excavating.

n. A hole formed by excavating.

n. The act of excavating, or of making hollow, by cutting, scooping, or digging out a part of a solid mass.

n. A cavity formed by cutting, digging, or scooping.

n. An uncovered cutting in the earth, in distinction from a covered cutting or tunnel.

n. The material dug out in making a channel or cavity.

n. Archaeological research that unearths buildings, tombs and objects of historical value.

n. A site where an archaeological exploration is being carried out.

n. The act of excavating, or of making hollow, by cutting, scooping, or digging out a part of a solid mass.

n. A cavity formed by cutting, digging, or scooping.

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n. An uncovered cutting in the earth, in distinction from a covered cutting or tunnel.

n. The material dug out in making a channel or cavity.

n. The act of making a thing hollow by removing the interior substance or part; the digging out of material, or its removal by any means, so as to form a cavity or hollow: as, the excavation of land by flowing water.

n. A hollow or cavity formed by removing the interior substance: as, many animals burrow in excavations of their own forming.

n. In engineering, an open cutting, as in a railway, in distinction from a tunnel.

n. In zoology, a deep and somewhat irregular hollow with well-defined edges, as if a piece had been taken out of the surface.

n. the act of digging

n. the act of extracting ores or coal etc from the earth

n. the site of an archeological exploration

n. a hole in the ground made by excavating

"When a witness to this excavation is killed by the military, his Smilla-esque sister Kristin – single, self-sufficient, ballsy – sets out to discover why."

covered cutting    tunnel   

creating by removal   

cavity    hole    burrow    cutting    delve    pit    digging    beard    mine    shaft   

Alsatian    Americanization    Appalachian    Balkanization    Christianization    Confederation    Corp.    Croatian    Dalmatian    Desegregation   

excavations    dig    gully    exploration    crater    chasm    explorations    crevice    cavern    fortification