Dictionary entry details
• EXCAVATE (verb)
Meaning:
Lay bare through digging
Classified under:
Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling
Synonyms:
excavate; unearth
Context example:
Schliemann excavated Troy
Hypernyms (to "excavate" is one way to...):
bring out; reveal; uncover; unveil (make visible)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s Adjective
Meaning:
Find by digging in the ground
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Synonyms:
dig up; excavate; turn up
Context example:
I dug up an old box in the garden
Hypernyms (to "excavate" is one way to...):
obtain (come into possession of)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "excavate"):
grub out; grub up (dig up)
nuzzle (dig out with the snout)
disinter; exhume (dig up for reburial or for medical investigation; of dead bodies)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Meaning:
Form by hollowing
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Context examples:
Carnegie had a lake excavated for Princeton University's rowing team / excavate a cavity
Hypernyms (to "excavate" is one way to...):
core out; hollow; hollow out (remove the interior of)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Meaning:
Remove the inner part or the core of
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Synonyms:
hollow; dig; excavate
Context example:
the mining company wants to excavate the hillside
Hypernyms (to "excavate" is one way to...):
remove; take; take away; withdraw (remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "excavate"):
drive (excavate horizontally)
ditch; trench (cut a trench in, as for drainage)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Sentence example:
They excavate the trees
