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Verb excavate has 4 senses
- excavate, unearth - lay bare through digging; "Schliemann excavated Troy"
--1 is one way to uncover, bring out, unveil, reveal
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s Adjective
- excavate, dig up, turn up - find by digging in the ground; "I dug up an old box in the garden"
--2 is one way to obtain
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
- excavate - form by hollowing; "Carnegie had a lake excavated for Princeton University's rowing team"; "excavate a cavity"
--3 is one way to hollow, hollow out, core out
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
- excavate, dig, hollow - remove the inner part or the core of; "the mining company wants to excavate the hillsite"
--4 is one way to remove, take, take away, withdraw
Sample sentence:
They excavate the trees
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