Excavate

v. t.	1.	To hollow out; to form cavity or hole in; to make hollow by cutting, scooping, or digging; as, to excavate a ball; to excavate the earth. [imp. & p. p. Excavated; p. pr. & vb. n. Excavating.]
	2.	To form by hollowing; to shape, as a cavity, or anything that is hollow; as, to excavate a canoe, a cellar, a channel.
	3.	(Engin.) To dig out and remove, as earth. The material excavated was usually sand. - E. L. Corthell. Excavating pump a kind of dredging apparatus for excavating under water, in which silt and loose material mixed with water are drawn up by a pump. - Knight.

Verb	1.	excavate - lay bare through digging; "Schliemann excavated Troy" Synonyms: unearth
	2.	excavate - find by digging in the ground; "I dug up an old box in the garden" Synonyms: dig up, turn up
	3.	excavate - form by hollowing; "Carnegie had a lake excavated for Princeton University's rowing team"; "excavate a cavity"
	4.	excavate - remove the inner part or the core of; "the mining company wants to excavate the hillsite" Synonyms: hollow, dig

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