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excavator Definition


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excavate
verb excavated, excavating
    1. To dig up or uncover something (especially historical remains).
      Thesaurus: unearth, exhume.
    2. To dig up (a piece of ground, etc); to make (a hole) by doing this.
      Thesaurus: dig, burrow, mine, tunnel, hollow, quarry.
Derivative: excavation
    The process of excavating or digging up ground.
    An excavated area or site.
      Thesaurus: mine, shaft, tunnel, burrow, hollow, trough, ditch, pit, quarry, trench.
Derivative: excavator
    Someone who excavates or digs up ground.
    A machine for digging.
Etymology: 16c: from Latin excavare, excavatum to make hollow.



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