excavate

Plural: excavates

Verb

Verb Forms: excavated, excavating, excavates

To dig out or remove material from a site.
recover through digging
- "Schliemann excavated Troy"
- "excavate gold"
find by digging in the ground
form by hollowing
- "Carnegie had a lake excavated for Princeton University's rowing team"
- "excavate a cavity"
remove the inner part or the core of
- "the mining company wants to excavate the hillside"
To make a hole in (something); to hollow.
To remove part of (something) by scooping or digging it out.
To uncover (something) by digging.

Adj

Made hollow.
excavated, hollowed out

Noun

Any member of a major grouping of unicellular eukaryotes, of the clade Excavata.

Examples

She tried to EXCAVATE points from the board by finding words that utilized bonus squares.

Origin / Etymology

First attested in 1599, from Latin excavātus (“hollowed out”), perfect passive participle of excavō (“to hollow out”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), from ex (“out”) + cavō (“to hollow out, pierce”), from cavus (“cave, hole”) + -ō (verb-forming suffix). Participial usage up until Early Modern English.

Synonyms

dig, dig up, hollow, turn up, unearth

Scrabble Score: 20

excavate: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
excavate: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
excavate: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 22

excavate: valid Words With Friends Word