Usually means: Digging out earth or materials.
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General (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. excavating: Merriam-Webster
  2. excavating: Collins English Dictionary
  3. excavating: Vocabulary.com
  4. Excavating, excavating: Wordnik
  5. excavating: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. excavating: Wiktionary
  7. Excavating, excavating: Dictionary.com
  8. excavating: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Excavating: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Excavating: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. Excavating: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. excavating: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  13. excavating: FreeDictionary.org
  14. excavating: TheFreeDictionary.com

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. excavating: 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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