excavates

Meaning of excavates

verb, 3rd person present
  1. make (a hole or channel) by digging.
    the cheapest way of doing this was to excavate a long trench
  2. remove earth carefully from (an area) in order to find buried remains.
    the site was excavated in 1975

late 16th century: from Latin excavat- ‘hollowed out’, from the verb excavare, from ex- ‘out’ + cavare ‘make or become hollow’ (from cavus ‘hollow’).

Information about excavates

  • It is a verb.
  • The singular form of excavates is: excavate.
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Hyphenation of excavates

ex-ca-vates

  • It consists of 3 syllables and 9 chars.
  • excavates is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables

excavates synonyms

Meaning make (a hole, grave, etc.) by breaking up and moving earth:

dig

Meaning make (a groove, hole, or indentation) with or as with a sharp tool or blade:

gouge

Meaning make (a hole) in something with a tool or by digging:

bore

Meaning (of an animal) make a hole or tunnel, typically for use as a dwelling:

burrow

Meaning dig or force a passage underground or through something:

tunnel

Meaning excavate (a well) or bore (a shaft) vertically downwards:

sink

Meaning extract (stone or other materials) from a quarry:

quarry

Meaning used to refer to a thing or things belonging to or associated with the speaker:

mine

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