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1. excavate

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Usually means: Remove earth to uncover something.
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We found 34 dictionaries that define the word excavate:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. excavate: Merriam-Webster
  2. excavate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. excavate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. excavate: Collins English Dictionary
  5. excavate: Vocabulary.com
  6. Excavate, excavate: Wordnik
  7. excavate: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. excavate: Wiktionary
  9. excavate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. excavate: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. excavate: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. excavate: Dictionary.com
  13. excavate: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. excavate: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Excavate: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Excavate: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. excavate: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. excavate: Rhymezone
  19. Excavate: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. excavate: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. excavate: FreeDictionary.org
  22. excavate: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. excavate: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. excavate: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. excavate: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. excavate: Encyclopedia

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

Science (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  2. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  3. Bryological (No longer online)
  4. Glossary of Entomology (No longer online)

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  1. excavate: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ 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.

Similar:
dig, dig up, hollow, turn up, excave, hollow out, holk, delve, cave, carve out, more...

Opposite:
fill, infill

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Similar:
dig, dig up, hollow, turn up, excave, hollow out, holk, delve, cave, carve out, more...

Opposite:
fill, infill

Colors:
    brown,     tan,     beige,     rust,     ochre, more...



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