Usually means: Removes earth to uncover something.
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  1. excavates: Merriam-Webster
  2. excavates: Collins English Dictionary
  3. excavates: Vocabulary.com
  4. excavates: Wordnik
  5. excavates: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. excavates: Wiktionary
  7. excavates: Dictionary.com
  8. excavates: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. excavates: TheFreeDictionary.com

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. excavates: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary

(Note: See excavate as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (excavate)

verb:  (transitive) To make a hole in (something); to hollow.
verb:  (transitive) To remove part of (something) by scooping or digging it out.
verb:  (transitive) To uncover (something) by digging.
noun:  (zoology) Any member of a major grouping of unicellular eukaryotes, of the clade Excavata.
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