excavate
excavate is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 2 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.To form by hollowing; to shape, as a cavity, or anything that is hollow; as, to excavate a canoe, a cellar, a channel.
- 2.(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.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- abysmal
- and
- ankle
- bathometer
- bathymetry
- benthal
- beyond
- bottomless
- cast
- concavity
- crater
- deep
- deepen
- deepness
- depression
- depth
- dig
- draught
- earth
- fathom
- fathomless
- gulf
- head
- heave
- hell
- hollow
- instrument
- knee
- lead
- line
- make
- mark
- measure
- out
- over
- pit
- plumb
- plummet
- plunge
- probe
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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