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excavate - Dictionary definition and meaning for excavate

EXCAVATE

(verb) remove the inner part or the core of
"the mining company wants to excavate the hillside"
synonyms : dig , hollow
(verb) form by hollowing
"Carnegie had a lake excavated for Princeton University's rowing team", "excavate a cavity"
(verb) find by digging in the ground
"I dug up an old box in the garden"
synonyms : dig up , turn up
(verb) recover through digging
"Schliemann excavated Troy", "excavate gold"
synonyms : unearth

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Mnemonics for excavate

(Tag: English) ex (extract) + cav (cave) + ate : EXtract the monuments by digging CAVE into the earth which the earth ATE long time back
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(Tag: ) +cav+ate— we say road caved in, so cav means a hole,
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